The diagnosis of COVID-19 is suspected based on a clinical history of common symptoms, a positive contact or a suspected positive contact and typical clinical examination findings.4,5 These patients commonly have a raised C-reactive protein (CRP), lactate dehydrogenase and lymphopaenia.4,5,8 The gold standard for definitive diagnosis is laboratory testing of respiratory tract specimens by means of reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assays.4,8. This evidence concerns the gene CRP and COVID-19.