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Chinese researchers stressed that it is possible for the new coronavirus to be transmitted from one person to another, without first showing any symptoms of the disease.
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This was reported by the American “Business Insider” website, indicating that researchers discovered a case that transmitted the disease to 5 people in her family, without showing any symptoms of this disease.
Chinese researchers revealed that a 20-year-old woman in the Chinese city of Wuhan had infected 5 people with the virus without showing symptoms, according to the American website.
The researchers said that the examination of the woman showed that she had the disease, but that a CT scan did not show the presence of any of the symptoms that accompany corona infection.
He added: “This case, is a compelling evidence, among researchers, that the disease can be transmitted without symptoms.”
The report of the China Center for Prevention and Control of Diseases, an agency of the National Health Commission, in Beijing, revealed that the analysis of records of the injured, between December 8 and January 11, found that 1.2 percent of confirmed infections did not They show no symptoms.
The site, the most prominent example of this, was the case in the ship “Diamond Princess”, which discovered 322 cases on board, out of 621 people, without symptoms.
The Chinese authorities said they had registered 397 new confirmed cases, on Friday, down from 889 the previous day.
The numbers increased elsewhere, with the outbreak increasing in South Korea, Iran, Italy and Lebanon.
In South Korea, the authorities said, today, Saturday, that the number of new infections has doubled, to 433, and indicated that the number may rise dramatically, as more than a thousand people were reported to have flu-like symptoms after attending a church event, according to Reuters. .
Chinese researchers just confirmed that patients can transmit the coronavirus without showing symptoms. A woman passed it to 5 relatives. https://t.co/xZJR6VHsY9
– Science Insider (@SciInsider) February 21, 2020
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The World Health Organization welcomed the decline in the number of people infected with corona in China, but expressed concern about the number of cases, which have contracted the virus elsewhere without having a clear link with China, and include people who have never traveled to China or contacted any confirmed case of the virus.
“Our biggest concern remains the potential for the spread of the Corona virus named” Covid-19 “in countries with more fragile health systems,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Gebresos.
He added that the organization requested $ 675 million to support the countries most in need, noting that priority is given to 13 countries in Africa because of their relations with China, according to “Reuters”.
Tidros said that China had reported the organization overall that 75,569 cases and 2,239 deaths had been detected. He added that, according to available data, the disease remains mild in 80 percent of the infected and serious or critical in 20 percent. The virus is fatal in two percent of cases.
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