Abstract
A Reemergent Case of COVID-19 — Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, China, April 9, 2020
Highlights
As of February 22, a total of 198 confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, and no new local cases were reported in Harbin over the 54 days (1)
On April 7, the throat swabs of the patients were tested by Harbin CDC by using realtime reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction targeting the ORF 1ab and N genes of COVID-19 virus, and the results showed that the nucleic acid of COVID-19 virus of the throat swab was positive
The National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention (IVDC) of China CDC conducted wholegenome sequencing analysis on a pharyngeal swab sample of the patient, which showed 99.97% nucleic acid similarity to the reference strain EPI_ISL_402119, which was isolated from Wuhan on January 7, 2020
Summary
As of February 22, a total of 198 confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, and no new local cases were reported in Harbin over the 54 days (1). On April 7, the throat swabs of the patients were tested by Harbin CDC by using realtime reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (real-time RT-PCR) targeting the ORF 1ab and N genes of COVID-19 virus, and the results showed that the nucleic acid of COVID-19 virus of the throat swab was positive. On April 8, Harbin CDC tested his pharyngeal swabs, blood, urine and stool samples again.
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