Chief physician of the St. Petersburg hospital. Botkina Denis Gusev said that patients with COVID-19 are increasingly complaining of diarrhea at the initial stage of the disease.
Also, according to him, the incubation period of the coronavirus has become shorter, it more often affects young people.
“The clinical course of the disease is characterized by a shorter incubation period (up to 5 days), rapid lung damage. In addition, the disease often begins with diarrheal syndrome,” Gusev said in an interview with Petersburg Diary.
Thus, the coronavirus is disguised as an intestinal infection, added the head physician of the Botkin Hospital.
On the eve of Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said that the Indian strain of COVID-19 is increasing its spread in St. Petersburg. On Thursday, June 24, as “DP” previously wrote, the Northern capital set an absolute anti-record for the number of deaths from coronavirus per day (99 people died).
