BEIJING: The Chinese researchers have witnessed that the coronavirus manifests differently among new patients against the original breakout in Wuhan in late December last year.
Doctors fear that the virus might be changing in different ways that could potentially impede the efforts being made to put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to Qiu Haibo, one of China’s top critical care doctors, new COVID-19 patients emerging in the northern provinces of Heilongjiang and Jilin carry the coronavirus infection for a longer period and take longer to test negative than usual.
Furthermore, the recently affected patients are taking longer than two weeks to develop symptoms of COVID-19 infection after getting exposed to the disease.
In the last two weeks, 46 new cases have been reported across three cities i.e. Jilin city, Shulan, and Shengyang of Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces. All of these new cases are clusters of family infections resulting from the longer incubation period.
Qiu Haibo further added that COVID-19 infection has damaged the lungs of almost all of the patients in the newly-emerged northeast cluster. Whereas, patients in Wuhan had suffered multi-organ damage across the lungs, kidneys, gut, and heart.
Qiu Haibo has urged citizens to take precautionary measures after the emergence of fresh cases in the northeast region.
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