MRO.YeDrA Posted May 6, 2020 Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) The World Health Organization (OMS) recommended Tuesday that countries that have samples from patients with suspected pneumonia in late 2019 run tests to identify possible cases of previous Covid-19, even if China reported the new coronavirus. The World Health Organization (OMS) recommended on Tuesday that countries that have samples from patients with suspected pneumonia in late 2019 run tests to identify possible cases of previous Covid-19, even if China reported the new coronavirus. "It would be of great importance that all countries with unspecified pneumonia cases in December, including November, actual tests, and some are already doing so," OMS spokesman Christian Lindmeier said at a press conference. Therefore, the OMS responds to medical reports from France and the United States that have identified possible cases of Covid-19 in those territories in the last days since December, although China has reported the existence of cases of the new coronavirus until the last day of the last year. This Tuesday, the head of resuscitation of the Avicenne and Jean Verdier hospitals in Paris, Yves Cohen, has reported that they have performed coronavirus tests on samples of patients treated in recent months for pneumonia and several of them have tested positive, the oldest from December 27. However, the first cases were confirmed by the French authorities on January 24: two in Paris and one in Bordeaux. The doctor concluded that the patient spent 15 days ill and that he infected his two children, but not his wife, a supermarket worker. The patient said that he did not know how he was infected since he had not traveled. Calls for research to "better understand the potential for contagion" For this reason, the OMS believes that it could have more cases of coronaviruses before December, so it has asked all countries to check their records at the end of 2019 to have a "clearer picture" of the pandemic. That is why Lindmeier has considered it essential that this type of study be continued "to better understand the contact potential of Covid-19". The spokesperson stressed that it would not be unusual for the coronavirus to be out of China at such an early date, "since the first cases of the disease date back to the beginning of December and it is possible that some of the infected travel from Wuhan (city where it originated) to other countries. " Lindmeier He added that it is standard practice among many physicians to save samples from patients with suspected pneumonia, specifically to be able to test / test after possible outbreaks of new diseases. Edited May 7, 2020 by -Sn!PeR- 24 hours passed. T/C.
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