Infection coding

Received question about infection coding that we sent to the National Board of Health and Welfare for comments

Question:
Normally, when encoding infections, the type of infection should be chosen as the main diagnosis (main ICU diagnosis) and the agent and severity as a bee diagnosis (other diagnosis).
E.g. Cholangitis with septic shock and with demonstrated findings of E. coli becomes:

Main diagnosis Kolangit K83.0

  1. BidiagnosE. coli B96.2
  2. Bidiagnos Ev Antibiotic Resistance U-Code
  3. Bidiagnosseptic shock R57.2

Examples given for COVID-19 have not been done in the same way:

  1. U07.1 Covid-19, virus identified
  2. J12.8 Other specified viral pneumonia

Here the agent has been entered first. What are you supposed to do?

Answer from the National Board of Health and Welfare:
We are aware of this, but we follow WHO's instructions on how to code in the case of COVID-19 and therefore the U07 code is first entered.