Can you get a new type of pneumonia if you’ve never been to Wuhan?

Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia is a case of unexplained fever that gradually appeared in Wuhan from December 2019, and was eventually diagnosed pathogenetically and determined to be a pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus infection. With the development of the epidemic, cases of the new coronavirus pneumonia have appeared in different parts of the country, in addition to first-generation cases, there are also second-generation cases, if you have not been to Wuhan, but now have a fever, contact with people who have been to Wuhan and at the same time is a patient of the new coronavirus pneumonia, contact with them may be at risk of infection, and in the absence of the necessary protection, there is a risk of infection. Therefore, it does not necessarily follow that a person who has not traveled to Wuhan is not a patient with novel coronavirus pneumonia. If you have been in contact with someone who has been to Wuhan or someone with novel coronavirus pneumonia, or if there is a cluster of illnesses, i.e., a large number of people with fever at the same time, there is a possibility of novel coronavirus pneumonia, and you should take it seriously and get checked out and treated in a timely manner. Source: Dr. Yurai