CHINESE EXPERTS WARN COVID-19 VIRUS MAY BE MUTATING

Doctors looking into COVID-19 patients in Northern China have warned that the latest cases in Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces appear to harbor a different strain of the virus that incubate for the longer term and show milder symptoms.

Qiu Haibo, head of the Department of Critical Care Medicine in Zhongda hospital, told teleSUR on May 20, 2020 that COVID-19 positive patients during the new virus outbreak in Jilin and Heilongjiang show different infection comportment in comparison to Wuhan’s initial cases.

The new study said Wuhan's original cases had quicker and stronger symptoms in only two weeks.  Besides, experts detected heart, kidney, and gut damage in Wuhan patients, while northern affected ones showed lung damage.  

As Qiu explained, these differences could reveal pathogens are changing, which could be difficult to comprehend for testing, and control.

“The longer period during which infected patients show no symptoms have created clusters of family infections,” the former director of the Chinese society of critical care medicine (CSCCM) stressed. More than 100 million people in China face new lockdowns as a second wave of COVID-19 cases emerges, teleSUR reported.#coronavirusimpact #COVID19