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Coronavirus: Guangzhou patients ‘thought they had the flu’, delayed seeking treatment
- About 60 per cent of cases in the city’s newest outbreak self-medicated, health authorities say
- Signs of easing with just eight more infections for the whole province
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Nearly two-thirds of the Covid-19 patients diagnosed in an outbreak in a southern Chinese city thought they had the flu and delayed seeking treatment, public health officials said on Saturday amid signs of easing in the disease’s spread.
Yang Zhibin, director of the centre for disease control and prevention in Guangzhou, said nearly 60 per cent of the latest patients confirmed with Covid-19 self-medicated with flu drugs after experiencing symptoms including fever, coughing, fatigue, a sore throat and a poor sense of smell.
The city reported just eight new cases of the coronavirus, taking its total in this outbreak to 136. Of those, 129 were confirmed cases and seven were asymptomatic.
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Chen Bin, deputy chief of Guangzhou’s health commission, said all of the eight new cases were identified during screening of residents quarantined in a hotel.
Chen said seven of the cases were residents from the Baihedong area in Liwan district and the other lived in Nanshan district’s Zhujiang Street community. Close contacts of the patients had also been quarantined, he said.
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The outbreak began on May 21 and has been dominated by the Delta strain of the coronavirus.
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