Some patients admitted for coronavirus in the capital hospital in Kommunarka, have a rash on the skin. About this new symptom COVID-19 told the online meeting organized by the Russian Jewish Congress, chief doctor of the institution Denis Protsenko.
“ten percent of patients with COVID-19 we see cutaneous manifestations, about which not much has been written,” said he.
Protsenko noted that with the same symptom experienced doctors in the UK and China. But “our Chinese colleagues wrote about a much smaller percentage of” patients with this manifestation of coronavirus.
However, he warned that it is too early to draw conclusions about the possible mutation of the virus, based only on “the difference of the clinical picture” of patients in Russia and other countries, but agreed that it could happen, “as dissemination”.
Recall that in Russia, according to official data, documented 114 431 cases of infection with coronavirus infection. More than 13 thousand patients have recovered, 1 169 people died.
