More than 43,000 people who tested positive in China for coronavirus by the end of February were not included in the nation’s official tally of confirmed cases, according to a report Sunday.
The figure represents so-called silent carriers, people who tested positive for the virus but showed no symptoms, according to Chinese government data obtained by the South China Morning Post.
The asymptomatic individuals were placed in quarantine and were monitored by authorities, but they were not added to China’s official tally of confirmed coronavirus cases, the SCMP reported.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Agrees to Pay Trump a Huge Settlement in Censorship Lawsuit
Democrats Boycott Trump Nominee Vote, But It Passed Anyway
Senate advances Trump’s energy secretary nominee to final confirmation vote
Top Republican on Senate health committee says he’s ‘struggling’ to confirm RFK Jr
Multiple difficulties have surrounded Reagan National Airport before fatal crash
Appeals court strikes down federal ban on gun sales to under-21 buyers
Black box still unrecovered from DC plane crash: NTSB
Watch: Democratic Senator Flies Off the Handle When Tulsi Gabbard Won’t Agree with Him on Ukraine and Edward Snowden
California Democrat hits Kash Patel for ties to gun rights group
Trump Did Something in North Carolina That the Biden Administration Could Never Conceive Of
Victims identified in DC plane crash involving American Airlines jet and military helicopter
Kash Patel vows to ‘do everything’ to help GOP senator expose Epstein files
‘As Low as You Can Go’: Mainstream Media Leftists Attempt to Pin Plane Disaster on Trump, Quickly Regret It
Ex-Obama Adviser Jailed as Pedophile, Took Stuffed Animals and Condoms to Meet Little Girl, 9
Los Angeles fire cleanup complicated by ‘unprecedented’ number of EVs with combustible lithium-ion batteries
1/5: A third of coronavirus cases may be ‘silent carriers’, classified Chinese data suggests https://t.co/5CM62xC845
— SCMP News (@SCMPNews) March 23, 2020
China’s failure to report asymptomatic coronavirus cases in its official tally goes against the World Health Organization’s guidance that anyone who tests positive for the virus should be counted as a confirmed case regardless of his or her symptoms.
While the WHO has said asymptomatic transmission of coronavirus is “extremely rare,” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported instances of asymptomatic individuals spreading the virus.
“Some spread might be possible before people show symptoms,” the CDC stated. “[B]ut this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.”
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Agrees to Pay Trump a Huge Settlement in Censorship Lawsuit
Democrats Boycott Trump Nominee Vote, But It Passed Anyway
Senate advances Trump’s energy secretary nominee to final confirmation vote
Top Republican on Senate health committee says he’s ‘struggling’ to confirm RFK Jr
Multiple difficulties have surrounded Reagan National Airport before fatal crash
Appeals court strikes down federal ban on gun sales to under-21 buyers
Black box still unrecovered from DC plane crash: NTSB
Watch: Democratic Senator Flies Off the Handle When Tulsi Gabbard Won’t Agree with Him on Ukraine and Edward Snowden
California Democrat hits Kash Patel for ties to gun rights group
Trump Did Something in North Carolina That the Biden Administration Could Never Conceive Of
Victims identified in DC plane crash involving American Airlines jet and military helicopter
Kash Patel vows to ‘do everything’ to help GOP senator expose Epstein files
‘As Low as You Can Go’: Mainstream Media Leftists Attempt to Pin Plane Disaster on Trump, Quickly Regret It
Ex-Obama Adviser Jailed as Pedophile, Took Stuffed Animals and Condoms to Meet Little Girl, 9
Los Angeles fire cleanup complicated by ‘unprecedented’ number of EVs with combustible lithium-ion batteries
And a joint study by a panel of experts in China, the United States, Britain and Hong Kong in January estimated that upward of 79 percent of confirmed coronavirus cases in Wuhan were spread by individuals showing mild or no symptoms.
“These undocumented infections often experience mild, limited, or no symptoms and hence go unrecognized, and, depending on their contagiousness and numbers, can expose a far greater portion of the population to the virus than would otherwise occur,” the panel reported.
The WHO did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment on China’s failure to report asymptomatic coronavirus cases.
China’s handling of coronavirus at the onset of the outbreak has come under intense scrutiny.
In early January, Chinese authorities reprimanded the first doctor in Wuhan to warn people about the virus, accusing him of “spreading rumors online” and “severely disrupting social order.”
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Agrees to Pay Trump a Huge Settlement in Censorship Lawsuit
Democrats Boycott Trump Nominee Vote, But It Passed Anyway
Senate advances Trump’s energy secretary nominee to final confirmation vote
Top Republican on Senate health committee says he’s ‘struggling’ to confirm RFK Jr
Multiple difficulties have surrounded Reagan National Airport before fatal crash
Appeals court strikes down federal ban on gun sales to under-21 buyers
Black box still unrecovered from DC plane crash: NTSB
Watch: Democratic Senator Flies Off the Handle When Tulsi Gabbard Won’t Agree with Him on Ukraine and Edward Snowden
California Democrat hits Kash Patel for ties to gun rights group
Trump Did Something in North Carolina That the Biden Administration Could Never Conceive Of
Victims identified in DC plane crash involving American Airlines jet and military helicopter
Kash Patel vows to ‘do everything’ to help GOP senator expose Epstein files
‘As Low as You Can Go’: Mainstream Media Leftists Attempt to Pin Plane Disaster on Trump, Quickly Regret It
Ex-Obama Adviser Jailed as Pedophile, Took Stuffed Animals and Condoms to Meet Little Girl, 9
Los Angeles fire cleanup complicated by ‘unprecedented’ number of EVs with combustible lithium-ion batteries
The doctor, 34-year-old Li Wenliang, was forced to sign a statement apologizing for blowing the whistle on the virus. Li died from coronavirus in February.
Five million people fled Wuhan by the time Chinese authorities locked down what was then the epicenter of the virus on Jan. 23, enabling the virus to spread around the world at a remarkable pace.
As of early Monday afternoon, there were 347,457 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 16,113 deaths worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins.
Story cited here.
