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COVID-19: The Adisa Notes: A cured patient can still spread disease for five weeks!

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This recent paper (below) from The Lancet states that the Covid 19 is actively replicating in the gut and shedding with faecal matter up to five weeks after cases were deemed ‘cured’ by virtue of two sputum negative RT PCR tests.
Implication: A patient cured of the disease can still spread it for up to 5 additional weeks. Scary!
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(20)30083-2/fulltext
Adisa, a professor of Surgery and Surgical Oncologist, is with the Abia State University.

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