NE China’s Jilin reports one imported case from Russia after four negative tests
A girl sporting a face masks rides a bicycle within the snow in Jilin, Northeast China’s Jilin Province on Tuesday. The spring snow stunned native residents whereas the bigger areas of Northeast and North China are experiencing a chilly wave. Picture: IC
China on Saturday reported an imported COVID-19 case in Northeast China’s Jilin Province that had initially eluded medical doctors — the affected person examined optimistic after 4 unfavorable nucleic acid and antibody exams.
The affected person, a local of Jilin, departed from Moscow on April 9 and returned through the Manzhouli land border customs in North China’s Internal Mongolia Autonomous Area. He was quarantined at a centralized facility within the border metropolis till April 26 and his three nucleic and blood antibody exams within the time interval had been all unfavorable.
The affected person completed his centralized quarantine on April 26 and was despatched again to Jilin Province on a chosen car to hold out additional remoted medical commentary. The fourth set of exams upon arrival in Jilin was each unfavorable however exams on Could 1 turned out to be optimistic.
The affected person is now hospitalized for remedy and his 21 shut contacts throughout the closed-loop transportation from the border metropolis to Jilin are being quarantined for medical commentary.
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Beijing, the capital metropolis, in mid-April additionally reported a confirmed imported affected person who examined optimistic after ending quarantine with a number of unfavorable check outcomes. Analysts have speculated that imported instances’ virus genotype was completely different from what China had detected in January and February, and affected the accuracy of present check kits which had been developed based mostly on home virus genotypes.
The Chinese language mainland has to this point reported a complete of 1,671 imported instances, with 464 nonetheless lively.
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