CCTV News:At the press conference on epidemic prevention and control in Guangdong Province held yesterday (February 13th) afternoon, Academician Zhong Nanshan announced that a live novel coronavirus had been isolated from the feces of a confirmed case in Guangzhou.
In this regard, Zhao Jincun, member of Academician Zhong Nanshan’s team and deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, gave a detailed briefing, and answered questions from CCTV reporters on the significance of isolating live viruses from feces of confirmed cases.
Zhao Jincun, Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases:Last week, the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases separated novel coronavirus from a local patient’s respiratory tract sample. This week, we have made some new progress in related research. In the tertiary laboratory, we joined our tertiary laboratory in Guangzhou and the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University to successfully isolate live novel coronavirus from the feces of a patient with severe novel coronavirus infection. The findings of this study are significant for public health and can also guide the formulation of subsequent epidemic prevention and control policies. This discovery may give us some hints that there may be some new ways of transmission in novel coronavirus in the future, but whether these ways exist in human-to-human transmission can only be confirmed by further study.
At the press conference, CCTV reporters at the general station asked further questions about this issue. Zhao Jincun said that this discovery raised the possibility of fecal transmission, but further research is needed to confirm it.
CCTV reporter Chen Xuting:The isolation of live virus from feces of confirmed cases further proves that fecal transmission is the route of transmission in COVID-19? Is it necessary to adjust the prevention and control measures accordingly?
Zhao Jincun, Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases:The isolation of fecal poisoning strains in patients is still an important discovery, suggesting the possibility of fecal mouth and respiratory transmission, but further confirmation needs further study. Although we have discovered this possibility, I don’t think ordinary people need to be particularly alarmed, avoid participating in gathering social activities and pay attention to personal hygiene. In addition, it may also remind us to pay attention to the hygiene of the whole family, including the family environment, including these unobstructed or related things in the sewer. The findings of the study may play a role in promoting and perfecting the relevant measures of epidemic prevention and control in our country. According to the new findings, we will further improve or find some potential epidemic transmission points and then improve them.
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