The number of coronavirus cases rose sharply in one day due to the application of a new diagnostic protocol in China. In addition, two of the eleven patients hospitalized in France are now cured and can leave the hospital.
According to the Hong Kong daily South China Morning Post on February 13, 2020, the latest assessment of the coronavirus epidemic is 60,107 confirmed cases for 1,363 deaths . In addition, patients recovered from the disease number 5,680. More than 13,000 new cases were therefore confirmed in a single day. This is obviously a huge leap, finding its source in the application of a new diagnostic protocol in China.
There is talk of a new, broader definition of cases of infection, so that clinically diagnosed cases are also taken into account. Thus, a chest x-ray on suspected cases may be sufficient for diagnosis, as have hitherto been standard nucleic acid tests. According to Chinese health authorities, diagnostic experience and a better understanding of the disease allowed this expansion.
Elsewhere in the world, how not to quote the Japan and the Yokohama Liner Case. With 39 new cases from this ship, the number of confirmed cases on board is 219. Thus, the total number of cases in Japan now stands at 247! With around fifty cases each, Hong Kong and Singapore together complete the top 3 of the most affected countries outside China.
As explained in an article published by Le Monde on February 12, two patients are off the hook in France. These are the first to recover among the 11 cases confirmed in our country. This is the couple in their thirties Chinese hospitalized in Paris after their arrival from Wuhan on January 18. Thus, the couple can leave the Bichât hospital and no longer need to be followed.
According to the hospital's infectious disease department, the discharge criteria meet an extremely safe protocol subject to international consensus. This is logically to determine the disappearance of symptoms such as cough and fever. Above all, two negative tests must be obtained within 24 hours. There are now 9 cases left in France.
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