Asymptomatic COVID-19 Infections……As reported by Contagionlive , China has recently reported multiple asymptomatic Covid-19 infections, including both imported and domestic cases. So far, Beijing has neither included these individuals in its confirmed case counts, nor disclosed statistics for this category to the public. Thus, the scale of asymptomatic infections in the country remains unknown.
Meanwhile, asymptomatic individuals have been identified as the source of confirmed Covid-19 cases many times. Health authorities should release statistics on asymptomatic individuals and sufficiently investigate the situation in order to educate the public and prevent the disease from coming back.
China also vow to strengthen prevention around the globe. The group, led by Premier Li Keqiang, called for improving prevention and control strategies and measures to bring economic and social development back to the normal track at an early date.
Li, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, presided over the meeting.
Noting that the positive trend in containing the domestic epidemic keeps expanding and the resumption of work and production is being promoted in an orderly fashion, the meeting stressed that the world is nevertheless still battling the COVID-19 pandemic and the risks and difficulties of epidemic containment in the country should be fully recognized.
The meeting called for more efforts in the treatment of patients in severe conditions as well as quarantine and follow-up visits for recovered patients, urging local authorities to release relevant information with openness and transparency.
Cross-border transmissions should also be further prevented, the meeting said, stressing that all travelers entering the country should take nucleic acid tests.
To consolidate the achievements in epidemic containment, more efforts should be made in monitoring, tracing, quarantining and treating the asymptomatic patients, the meeting said.
The screening of asymptomatic infections should be stepped up and the detection range should be expanded, it added.
The identified asymptomatic patients should be put under close quarantine, the meeting said, urging that the infection sources of these patients should be found out as early as possible.
The meeting also called for epidemiological analysis of such infections to improve the prevention and control measures.
Wang Huning, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and deputy head of the leading group, attended the meeting.
