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The cases of the latest outbreak of the coronavirus in China, registered in the northeast of the country, have different characteristics from those of the original outbreak , which emerged from the central province of Hubei, local media reports.

The official Global Times newspaper quotes an expert from the National Health Commission, Qiu Haibo, who appeared this week on public television, stating that the cases detected in recent weeks in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces are more like those imported from other countries. countries than those of Hubei , in whose capital, Wuhan, the first world infections of Covid-19 were registered.

Although there is no talk of a confirmed mutation of the virus, the differences in the behavior of the pathogen could suppose that it has occurred, which would hinder the work to contain its spread and the development of treatments and vaccines.

In these two north-eastern regions, according to Qiu, the infected show a longer incubation period and atypical symptoms - in many cases, they do not have a fever but they do have fatigue or a sore throat - or they do not directly show symptoms, resulting in infections in the familiar surroundings.

In Wuhan, patients not only suffered lung damage, but the virus also attacked their heart, kidneys, or intestines, while in Heilongjiang and Jilin, infections from imported cases hardly caused damage to organs other than the lungs.

Qiu added that those infected in the north-east are carrying the virus for a longer period than those in Hubei , and that treatments are being more effective in those areas, where the proportion of severe cases is lower than in Wuhan.

Jilin province is one of the places where infections continue to occur in China, a country where authorities believe they have the virus practically under control.

In that area there are still 25 active cases of the 84 that continue to show official figures at the national level, although the last part of the National Health Commission does not show new infections in Jilin province.

Lockdown

The main focus is on the Shulan municipality, under the jurisdiction of the neighboring city of Jilin, where authorities have imposed confinement in the face of the resurgence of cases and will compel all residents returning from Russia - one of the most affected countries pandemic - to record your personal information and to undergo nucleic acid tests paid for by the Government.

Northeast China has been the most contentious point for local authorities, who in recent weeks have been forced to close the border with Russia after detecting a drip of infected Chinese citizens from Russian territory and even building another "hospital express "in Heilongjiang province.

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