Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
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On 7 April 2020, "Nature · Microbiology", a section of the international academic journal "Nature", published a research article from the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control. Among the research writers of the paper is Liu Manqing, Deputy Director of the Pathogen Biology Laboratory of Wuhan Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
The online version is published on the official web-site of Nature, entitled "SARS-CoV-2 detection in patients with influenza-like illness" (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0713-1).
The article said that between 6 October 2019 and 21 January 2020, the researchers conducted a retrospective test of 640 throat swab specimens collected from patients of Children's Hospital of Wuhan and Wuhan No. 1 Hospital, with influenza-like symptoms. Nine of the patients are infected with the virus SARS-CoV-2. The earliest specimen of this virus by these hospitals is collected on 4 January 2020.
The article reveals that the 9 diagnosed patients are from 6 different areas in and around Wuhan. This shows that in early January 2020 in Wuhan and surrounding areas, there has been a community spread of COVID-19 (covid, in short).
According to the South China Morning Post, the first covid patient, a 55-year-old person from Hubei province, is diagnosed positive on 17 November 2019 but 'patient zero' has yet to be confirmed. It is possible there could be earlier cases of covid.
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Images : Web Screenshots
On 7 April 2020, "Nature · Microbiology", a section of the international academic journal "Nature", published a research article from the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control. Among the research writers of the paper is Liu Manqing, Deputy Director of the Pathogen Biology Laboratory of Wuhan Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
The online version is published on the official web-site of Nature, entitled "SARS-CoV-2 detection in patients with influenza-like illness" (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0713-1).
The article said that between 6 October 2019 and 21 January 2020, the researchers conducted a retrospective test of 640 throat swab specimens collected from patients of Children's Hospital of Wuhan and Wuhan No. 1 Hospital, with influenza-like symptoms. Nine of the patients are infected with the virus SARS-CoV-2. The earliest specimen of this virus by these hospitals is collected on 4 January 2020.
The article reveals that the 9 diagnosed patients are from 6 different areas in and around Wuhan. This shows that in early January 2020 in Wuhan and surrounding areas, there has been a community spread of COVID-19 (covid, in short).
According to the South China Morning Post, the first covid patient, a 55-year-old person from Hubei province, is diagnosed positive on 17 November 2019 but 'patient zero' has yet to be confirmed. It is possible there could be earlier cases of covid.
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