Posted on 02/01/2020 10:47:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Two of the four NSW coronavirus patients have recovered from the potentially lethal infection and have been discharged from hospital, according to health authorities.
NSW chief health officer Doctor Kerry Chant said the men were no longer infectious and had been released.
"As an added precaution we have undertaken testing to confirm there is no virus detectable in samples taken from those individuals.
"They acquired the virus, they got better, and now they're not infectious."
Both of the discharged men had arrived in NSW from China: a 35-year-old man travelled to Sydney from Shenzhen and a 53-year-old male flew to Sydney from Wuhan.
A 21-year-old female student from the University of New South Wales and a 43-year-old man remain in isolation.
Authorities in NSW have been ramping up testing for the virus in recent days, encouraging recent visitors to China to come forward even if their symptoms are mild.
Dr Chant said she would not be surprised if further cases of coronavirus were confirmed in NSW, where currently 20 possible cases are under investigation.
"I wouldn't be concerned if I found another case — that would reflect the veracity of our screening processes," she said.
Nine cases, including the two men who have been discharged, have been confirmed in Australia — four in NSW, three in Victoria and two in Queensland.
On Thursday evening, Queensland authorities confirmed their second case of novel coronavirus via a statement from chief health officer Jeannette Young.
Dr Young confirmed the patient was a 42-year-old woman from the virus epicentre of Wuhan in China and that she had been travelling in the same tour group as the 44-year-old man who was the first recorded case in the state.
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If what you say is true, I would expect THOUSANDS of cases more occurring in the USA, Australia and
Europe in the next few weeks.
I’ll revisit this thread and discuss it with you *IF* that happens.
If it does not happen, then what you’re telling me is no different from what Greta Thunberg is telling all of us about Climate Change.
TIME will tell.
They claim they could no longer detect the virus...
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