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Titled ‘Clinical characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 in China’, a study has found that the majority of patients hospitalised in mainland China initially presented without fever and their most common symptom was cough.
The study is based on the data of 1,099 patients with laboratory-confirmed coronavirus disease from 552 hospitals in 30 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities in mainland China.
The study’s findings show that the most common symptom was cough (67.8 per cent). Fever was present in 43.8pc of the patients on admission but developed in 88.7pc during hospitalisation.
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