With mild COVID-19 symptoms, those with the infections may be clear after about 10 days of symptoms.

People quarantined for the Novel Coronavirus tend to shed more quantities of the virus in their primary stages of illness and likely become less contagious as the disease starts fading away, this all was suggested by a small study.

On Sunday, the 8th of March, a research study was posted to preprint database medRxiv is still in the development, because it has not yet been thoroughly reviewed and approved and as it includes only 9 participants at the research phase. Still, it still hints why the COVID-19 is spreading so easily. Many people are dangerous if not kept in isolation at their preliminary symptoms, just like a common cold.

“This is in stark contrast to SARS,” the authors mentioned the related disease caused due to another type of coronavirus. With SARS patients, it has been observed that viral spread peaked about 7 to ten days into the illness, as the shedding from the upper tract into deep lung tissues is found. In about 7 patients with Corona, the disease caused by the new “peak concentrations were reached before Day 5 and were more than 1,000 times higher” when compared to the SARS patients, the authors have mentioned.

This spread also found in 2 more patients whose symptoms are seen in the lungs, started with the first signs like pneumonia. In these cases, viral spread maximum of levels of about 10 to 11 days. In mild cases, viral shedding dropped after 5 days and 10 days. Patients were not infectious according to the authors.

“Based on the present findings, early discharge with ensuing home isolation could be chosen for patients who are beyond Day 10 of symptoms,” when the sample was taken from the throats of the patients, it was found that more than 100,000 samples of viral genetic material were found per milliliter.