Is the incubation time of the deadly virus longer than they thought? • According to publications in the country, a man was diagnosed with a patient after a month • At the same time, the number of infections is declining, but the virus continues to spread around the world • At the same time, the Israelis returning from the Corona ship underwent further tests
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Corona virus continues to surprise: On Saturday, a 70-year-old man, a resident of Hubei Province, was reported in China, who contracted the corona virus but went on to show symptoms only after 27 days. Which raised the question as to whether the virus's incubation time might be longer than initially thought.
According to local media, the man became infected when he met his sister, who was ill, at the end of January. About a week ago, he suffered from fever and a hospital examination revealed he had also contracted the virus, about 27 days after the encounter.
A longer incubation period could make it more difficult to cope with the spread of the virus, which has killed more than 2,000 people since it was discovered.
At the same time, Chinese authorities have reported a sharp decline in the number of new virus deaths and infections over the past day. Yesterday 397 new cases were discovered, while on Thursday 889 cases were discovered.
The virus continues to spread worldwide and tonight a first case of death was reported in Italy of an elderly man who was among the 17 diagnosed cases of the disease in the country. In South Korea, 142 new cases were diagnosed and Japan closed a school after four teachers were diagnosed as blue.
In the meantime, further tests were taken this morning from all returning from Japan and the results of the tests are expected to be delivered after the Sabbath departure, so it will be clear whether other passengers may also have been infected by the passenger who was diagnosed yesterday.
Prof. Gili Regev Yochai, director of the Sheba Infection Prevention Unit, yesterday referred to the possibility of more patients being discovered and said: "They were together on the plane for many hours, were on the bus from the field. We are not sure how careful they were to put on masks."
"We will learn all these things in the coming days. In terms of our preparedness, we have taken that into account. It was clear to us that there is a low chance that someone will be positive and our readiness is also that all 11 will be positive. So, for us, this is not a big surprise. We are ready for it. It requires more monitoring and testing, "she added.
