To collect and analyze the case characteristics of 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients admitted to the mobile cabin hospitals, to guide the early identification and screening as well as early diagnosis of COVID-19 in the community.

The medical records were retrospectively analyzed in 94 patients enrolled in the Wuhan Dongxihu Mobile Cabin Hospital from February 7 to March 7, 2020, including 82 males and 12 females, aged 17 to 69 years, with an average age of (46.01±12.35) years. the patient’s nasopharyngeal swab was taken for 2019-nCoV nucleic acid test; positive date for the diagnosis, the patient’s epidemiological characteristics, latency and clinical manifestations were collected and analyzed.

92 patients (97.9%) had a history of suspected contact, and 5 patients (5.3%) were asymptomatic. The time from contact with suspicious patients to the appearance of clinical symptoms was 1 to 16 days, and the time from the appearance of clinical symptoms to the diagnosis was 1 to 30 days. The time from onset of clinical symptoms to diagnosis in different period varied: 14 days in December (1 case); 1-30 days in January (60 cases); 1-17 days in February (28 cases). The average length of hospital stay of patients in the cabin hospital was (20.31±5.05) days. The time from showing clinical symptom to negative viral nucleic acid was 9 ~ 44 days in all patients. Among them, 63 cases (67.0%) developed fever, 45 cases (47.8%) developed dry cough, and 25 cases (26.6%) developed fatigue etc.

This study indicates that 2019-nCoV infection patients have no specific clinical symptoms, and often manifest as fever, dry cough, and fatigue. For patients with similar manifestations and suspicious epidemiology, the screening process for 2019-nCoV nucleic acid should be initiated as soon as possible, to detect suspicious patients early and improve screening efficiency, Confirmed patient should conduct further treatment as early as possible in infection treatment wards, such as the mobile cabin hospitals.