Corona4 Apr 2020 11:42
New data from China is now going across the World Health Organization WHO's opinion, which was stated in a February report that coronary disease without symptoms is relatively uncommon and probably not a major cause of the spread of infection.
In the Chinese samples that are now being performed, it turns out that four out of five who tested positive for corona showed no symptoms at all.
In China, sampling is now carried out by persons who enter the country from outside. Since April 1, figures have been published on the number of people tested positive for the coronavirus without showing any symptoms.
As early as the first day, 130 of a total of 166 new cases were tested that tested positive for symptom-free, writes the journal British medical journal, BMJ.
- It is a small sample and more data will be available. But let's say they can be generalized, and even if they are ten percent wrong, this is because the virus is everywhere, says Tom Jefferson, epidemiologist and researcher at the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University, to the BMJ.
Tom Jefferson believes that the results are very important and also says it is likely that the virus has circulated longer than previously thought and that a large part of the population has already been exposed. (TT)