A local government in China announced Saturday that a 70-year-old man in Hubei province had contracted the Corona virus, but had no symptoms until 27 days later, which means that the incubation period of the virus may be much longer than the presumed 14-day period..
The longer incubation period may hinder efforts to contain the spread of the outbreak that has killed more than 2,000 people and spread outside China..
The website of the Hubei government, the epicenter of the outbreak, said that the man whom his family referred to as Jiang drove his car on January 24 to return to the Chongqing District in northwest Hubei from Ichu City, where he met his sister who had the disease..
The government statement said that he had a fever on February 20 and was confirmed to have the virus the next day.
It is reported that, “Corona” virus can affect animals and humans, and causes a range of diseases ranging from common cold to severe ones such as those caused by acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)..
For its part, the National Health Committee of China said that the ability of the Corona virus to transmit is getting stronger and that the number of infection cases may continue to rise, after the virus infected more than 76,288 cases in the world and led to the death of 2345 people in China.
In a statement, Minister of the National Health Committee Ma Xiaoyi said that the incubation period for the new coronavirus can range from one to 14 days and that it becomes contagious during its incubation period, unlike the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) caused by the Coronavirus, which has killed nearly 800 people. Worldwide in 2002 and 2003.
While China announced a ban on the trade of wild animals across the country, as part of efforts to combat the spread of pneumonia associated with the new Coronavirus, the Chinese State Administration of Market Regulation, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the State Administration of Forest and Grassland – in a joint statement – stated that the places that take place In it, wild animals are quarantined, and it is strictly forbidden to trade or sell them.
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