Who is considered unlikely asymptomatic transmission COVID-19

Asymptomatic transmission of coronavirus is extremely rare. This was stated by the technical Director of the who response to COVID-19 Maria van Kerkhove during mediawriting organization.

“On the basis of the data available to us, it seems unlikely that asymptomatic carrier passed the infection to someone else, she said. — We have a number of reports from other countries. There followed for asymptomatic carriers, their contacts, and do not detect further transmission. This happens very rarely”.

However, as noted by van Kerkhove to asymptomatic cases are often mistakenly referred cases COVID-19 with mild and atypical or not yet manifested symptoms. Thus the person becomes contagious 2-3 days before symptoms appear. Asymptomatic disease implies the absence of symptoms throughout the disease.

“When we look at the data and figure out how much was actually asymptomatic cases, we find that often it is actually talking about the mild symptoms,” she said.

Almost half of the cases occur before the patient will show symptoms, said who experts. But this does not mean that he had asymptomatic infection — the symptoms just haven’t manifested.