New Delhi: Asymptomatic COVID-19 patients are as virulent and infective as symptomatic ones and those having no clinical symptoms but tested positive for new coronavirus can infect several healthy people, according to new studies.
Reported by Global Times, those silent carriers (asymptomatic COVID-19 patients) have been controversial regarding their infectivity but the news of a woman in Henan Province in China has further triggered public concerns”.
The woman in Central China’s Henan Province was confirmed to be infected with COVID-19 after coming into contact with an asymptomatic coronavirus patient, who also got the virus from another asymptomatic patient.
“A recent study showed the infectivity of asymptomatic patients (having no clinical symptoms but testing positive for COVID-19) could be nearly the same as confirmed coronavirus cases,” the report said.
Scientists with the Ningbo Center for Disease Control and Prevention in East China’s Zhejiang Province found that 6.3 per cent of confirmed cases’ close contacts were ultimately infected with coronavirus.
