7 Case Identification and Report

Medical staff at all levels and types of medical institutions should immediately isolate and treat every suspected case that meet the definition of the disease in a single room. After in-hospital experts’ consultation or attending physicians’ consultation, people still be considered as suspected cases need to be reported online within 2 hours. Specimens should be collected and tested for the nucleic acid of 2019-nCoV. Suspected patients should be transferred to the designated hospitals as soon as possible. People intimately contacted with COVID-19 patients or those even with positive results in common respiratory pathogens test, are also recommended to conduct the pathogenic detection 2019-nCoV in time.