Patients in northeast region of Jilin, Heilongjiang appear to carry the coronavirus for a longer period of time and take longer to test negative, suggesting that COVID-19 may be changing in unknown ways and complicating efforts to stamp it out BEIJING : Chinese doctors are seeing the coronavirus manifest differently among patients in its new cluster of cases in the northeast region compared to the original outbreak in Wuhan, suggesting that the pathogen may be changing in unknown ways and complicating efforts to stamp it out.
Patients found in the northern provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang appear to carry the virus for a longer period of time and take longer to test negative, Qiu Haibo, one of China’s top critical care doctors, told