Research finds Covid-19 patients with diarrhoea have severe pneumonia symptoms

BEIJING (Xinhua): Researchers have found that more novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) patients with diarrhoea showed severe symptoms of pneumonia than those without diarrhoea, according to a recently published research article in the journal Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

The researchers from the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University and its Research Institute of Gastroenterology examined the intestinal symptoms of patients with Covid-19 from multiple medical centres in China.