The proportion of patients who have recovered from COVID-19 in the virus-hit city of Wuhan, as well as other places in Hubei province and other provinces across China, has increased for 19 consecutive days as of Tuesday March 2 according to Mi Feng, a spokesperson for the National Health Commission (NHC), who shared the good news at a press conference in Beijing. Outside Hubei, China has seen 87.3% of its confirmed cases recovering from the disease by that same day.
Mi added that the country will use this success to continue strengthening treatment processes for patients with severe symptoms while adhering to the combination of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine to enhance patient recovery.
As of Wednesday, the number of patients discharged from hospitals across the country was 17.3 times the total number of deaths, whereas the ratio on Feb. 1 stood at 1.08, said Mi Feng.
The commission said in its daily report that a total of 52,045 patients had been discharged from hospital by the end of Wednesday while 3,012 people in total had died of the disease in the same period.
Also, the health commission has said Hubei will gradually shut down temporary hospitals and cut the number of hospitals designated for the disease as situations improve, while maintaining strict prevention and control measures.
Beijing hospital confirms nervous system
infections by novel coronavirus
Chinese doctors have proved for the first time that the novel coronavirus can cause damage to patients' central nervous system.
Doctors from Beijing Ditan Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, a designated institution treating the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), announced Thursday that they have cured a male patient whose cerebrospinal fluid had the virus.
Previous studies show that COVID-19 may attack multiple organs, including kidneys, livers and heart, but there are no records about the central nervous system damage.
The patient, 56, was diagnosed with the COVID-19 on Jan. 24 at the hospital. He had severe symptoms and failed to respond to regular treatment, according to a hospital statement.
In the intensive care unit (ICU), the patient developed symptoms associated with decreased consciousness, though there were no abnormal signs on his head CT images.
The medical staff then conducted gene sequencing on samples of his cerebrospinal fluid and confirmed the presence of the novel coronavirus, diagnosing the COVID-19 patient with encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain.
After the treatment of viral encephalitis, the patient's neurological symptoms gradually disappeared.
He was transferred to the infectious ward on Feb. 18 and was discharged from the hospital on Feb. 25.
Liu Jingyuan, ICU director of the hospital and attending doctor of the patient, said that once a COVID-19 patient is found to have disorders of consciousness, medical staff should consider the possibility of nervous system infections and carry out cerebrospinal fluid tests in time, to avoid delayed diagnosis and further reduce the mortality rate of critically ill patients.
Source: xinhua
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