MOSCOW, April 11. /TASS/. Patients who had recovered from infections caused by a novel coronavirus, was in serious condition, can be contagious to others for up to five weeks even after the disappearance of clinical signs of pneumonia.
this was reported by Deputy Director, innovation St. Petersburg Institute of epidemiology and Microbiology named after Pasteur Rospotrebnadzor Alexander Semenov.
“the longer the patient is in serious condition, the longer it will excrete virus in the environment, that is, patients who were in critical condition, they can highlight coronavirus to five weeks even after the disappearance of clinical signs of pneumonia,” he said in the film naili Asker-zade “download-2” on TV channel “Russia-1”.
Semyonov added that studies Chinese colleagues during an outbreak of the coronavirus in China showed that in 20-25% of cases of infection in humans was infection mixed infection: seasonal influenza and COVID-19.
“If the human immune system ready to fight off the flu virus, there is an effective vaccine, then, of course, it is much easier to transfer and coronavirus infection, because it will be necessary to fight with one enemy, not two”, he explained.
