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69% Of COVID-19 Did Not Show Any Symptoms: ICMR
By: Tupaki Desk | 23 April 2020 11:32 AM GMT
In what it could be a piece of good news the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said 69% of COVID-19 patients did not show any symptoms of the virus as they might possess good immunity power.
ICMR's head of epidemiology and communicable diseases Raman Gangakhedkar said 90% of COVID-19 patients are recovering with general treatment and only 1 percent of patients were on ventilators.
"Among the total coronavirus tests conducted so far in India, 69% were asymptomatic and 31% were symptomatic. Which means for one positive patient when we initiated contact tracing, on average we found two asymptomatic patients," he said.
Some of the media reports stated that Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh witnessed 65% and 75% of patients who did not show any positive symptoms of the virus.
"There are few reports of lab-confirmed Covid-19 cases which are truly asymptomatic. There has been no documented asymptomatic transmission. This does not exclude the possibility that it may occur," Union health ministry joint secretary Lav Agarwal said quoting the report of WHO.
ICMR's head of epidemiology and communicable diseases Raman Gangakhedkar said 90% of COVID-19 patients are recovering with general treatment and only 1 percent of patients were on ventilators.
"Among the total coronavirus tests conducted so far in India, 69% were asymptomatic and 31% were symptomatic. Which means for one positive patient when we initiated contact tracing, on average we found two asymptomatic patients," he said.
Some of the media reports stated that Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh witnessed 65% and 75% of patients who did not show any positive symptoms of the virus.
"There are few reports of lab-confirmed Covid-19 cases which are truly asymptomatic. There has been no documented asymptomatic transmission. This does not exclude the possibility that it may occur," Union health ministry joint secretary Lav Agarwal said quoting the report of WHO.
