Ubad person infected 14 hospital employees. Shortly after the Chinese Health Commission announced that the new coronavirus discovered in Wuhan, in China, was transmissible by human contact, Zhong Nanshan, its chief scientist revealed that 14 people had been infected when treating a patient. The Chinese state press finally revealed the details this Saturday, the 24th of January.
O patient considered ‘supercontagiator‘was identified as Zhao Junshi, 69, and had undergone surgery to remove a tumor pituitary in the neurosurgery department at the hospital Wuhan Union on 7 January. No one, not even himself, was aware that he was infected with the new viral pneumonia.
Some patients are more infectious than others with the same disease. This group of people is called ‘supercontagiator‘and are a crucial factor in the faster transmission of a contagious disease.
Chronology of contagion
The 11 of January suddenly started to have a fever and after a tomography it was possible to verify that he had both lungs infected. The responsible doctor immediately reported the case of Zhao to the department of contagious diseases, requiring specialists to help diagnose the cause of the disease.
The doctors eventually concluded that the man was infected with an “unknown type of pneumonia”. At the time, there were no test kits for the new coronavirus.
The next day, the patient’s condition worsened and the tests revealed “several shadows in his lungs”. It was then that the doctors and nurses who had assisted and cared for him started to have a fever, one after another. And that’s when Zhao ended up being transferred to a area isolation.
And on 15 January it was confirmed that it was infected like New coronavirus and was transferred to the infectious disease facilities of another hospital in the city. Medical staff affected he was also put under isolation and treatment.
The omission
When the Health Commission of Wuhan issued a routine review of pneumonia on 16 January, did not mention that hospital staff had been infected. And so it continued until 20 January, when the chief scientist admitted, at a press conference, that the virus could be transmitted between humans.
One of the doctors at the hospital Wuhan Union, Lin Yu, reminded The Epoch Times that shortly after the first group of patients with coronavirus having been identified, local authorities insisted that hospital staff not reveal any information on social media or in interviews.
“There was only one thing we could do – tell our patients to buy masks and use–las when they left and not to buy food at the market Huanan Seafood“, he revealed to the same publication. Among the first group of patients there was a large percentage who worked or were market clients.
It is recalled that in the last 24 hours, 26 people died in China, bringing the death toll to 132 and the number of confirmed cases to 5,974 – an increase of 1,459 from Tuesday. These numbers mean that the new virus now has more infected than the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic (SARS) what infected 5,327 people.
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