A growing number of patients in China who previously recovered from the CCP virus are relapsing, according to internal government documents obtained by The Epoch Times.
The publication obtained internal reports on relapse rates from several local governments: Inner Mongolia, Guangdong, Sichuan, Shandong, Guizhou, Ningxia, and Hainan provinces and the city of Chongqing. There are a total of 32 provinces and directly-governed municipalities in China.
The governments collected the data in early April. The highest rate among the data sheets was in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, which was 42.86 percent.
The figures in the internal reports are much higher than the 5 to 15 percent that Wang Guiqiang, director of the infectious diseases department at Peking University First Affiliated Hospital, cited during a central-government-hosted press conference on May 7. He said that range was for the “overall situation” in the country.
He added that some relapsed patients experience symptoms again. Some patients’ lungs were further damaged after they relapsed.
The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, first broke out in central China’s Wuhan city in late 2019, and has since spread across China and to over 200 countries and regions.
Relapse
The government reports contain two parts. One is a general report about the number of patients in each prefecture-level city, the number of patients who relapsed, and the relapse rate.
The second part is a list of relapsed patients with their detailed personal information: when they were first discharged from the hospital; when they relapsed; nucleic acid test results from their sputum, throat mucus, nasal mucus, and anal sample; blood antibody test results; where they were being isolated when the relapse occurred, and so on.
For example, the general report from Inner Mongolia recorded the current status of COVID-19 patients in its 11 prefecture-level cities. COVID-19 is the disease caused by the CCP virus. Inner Mongolia has 12 prefecture-level cities; the Alxa League has never reported domestic infections.
According to the data, 74 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals in Inner Mongolia. 12 of them relapsed later. The overall relapse rate for the region is 16.22 percent. After treatment, ten of them were discharged again. Two relapsed patients still tested positive with the virus and were being isolated when authorities collected the data.
In Inner Mongolia, Hulunbuir city had the highest relapse rate, at 42.86 percent.
Inner Mongolia provincial government reports their CCP virus patient’s relapse rate is 16.22 percent in Hohhot, China in April, 2020. (Provided to The Epoch Times by insider)Other Provinces
In Chongqing city, 174 out of 570 discharged patients relapsed. The relapse rate is 30.53 percent.
One patient surnamed Huang relapsed on the 45th day after being discharged from the hospital. This was the longest incubation period—the time period from when a patient was discharged to when he relapsed—recorded in the data.
In Guangdong, 1,344 out of 1,348 discharged patients took a nucleic acid test. 228 of them tested positive, which means the relapse rate is 16.96 percent.
In Sichuan, 536 out of 541 discharged patients took the test. 76 tested positive, amounting to a relapse rate of 14.18 percent.
In Shandong Province, the relapse rate was 11.54 percent. The longest incubation period was 36 days.
The relapse rate was 11.11 percent in Guizhou, 13.11 percent in Ningxia, and 12.30 percent in Hainan.
A Chinese health worker carries out a nucleic acid test on a journalist covering events around the National People’s Congress in Beijing, China on May 28, 2020. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)Disputed Relapse Case
On May 30, Hefei city in eastern China’s Anhui province announced one relapse case, a 24-year-old woman surnamed Wei.
Chinese state-run broadcaster CCTV reported that Wei tested positive again on May 26, more than two months after she was discharged from the hospital. Her colleagues told the Chinese-language Epoch Times that the workplace has since adopted strict measures to prevent further virus spread.
Wei works at the laundry machine department, within the Hefei city campus of Chinese electrical appliance manufacturer Midea Group.
“All employees in our factory took a nucleic acid test on May 27,” one co-worker said on May 31. “Now, no visitors can enter our campus, and all employees must use a keyfob to enter.”
An employee who works at the refrigerator department of Midea Group said he and his colleagues also had to take nucleic acid tests.
The owner of a restaurant inside the campus said she has not received any official notice from the company about the virus case.
Locals shared information on social media platforms, and claimed that six other Midea employees were diagnosed. But local police refuted the rumors in a May 30 social media post. They detained at least one person who shared this information with friends, and fined another person 300 yuan ($42).
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