Table 1.
Epidemiological characteristics and etiological results of COVID-19 patients from nine provinces of China.
| Province | Date of Onset | Age (years) | Time interval from onset to sampling (day) | Positive rate of SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid in stool samples | Clinical classification (positive rate) | Number of cases associated with clustering outbreaks | Number of cases associated with diarrhoea | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mild | Moderate | Severe | Critical | |||||||
| Chongqing | 7–31 Jan, 2020 | 6–63 | 5–25 | 61.5%, 8/13 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | unknown | unknown |
| Fujian | 16–31 Jan, 2020 | 17–86 | 3–17 | 55.6%, 20/36 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 3 |
| Heilongjiang | 16 Jan–2 Feb, 2020 | 27–67 | 2–31 | 54.2%, 13/24 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 13 | unknown |
| Sichuan | 23 Jan–1 Feb, 2020 | 38–84 | 3–18 | 52.4%, 11/21 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Shaanxi | 21–29 Jan, 2020 | 4–66 | 5–13 | 50.0%, 10/20 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Guizhou | 26 Jan–6 Feb, 2020 | 2–80 | 2–14 | 45.0%, 9/20 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| Hebei | 17–30 Jan, 2020 | 13–73 | 5–17 | 21.4%, 9/42 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
| Gansu | 8 Jan–6 Feb, 2020 | 1–69 | 4–27 | 18.5%, 12/65 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Jilin | 28 Jan, 2020 | 42 | 9 | 5.9%, 1/17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 1–84 | 2–31 | 36.0%, 93/258 | 12 | 44 | 31 | 6 | 47 | 5 | |