Chinese health authorities began on Wednesday reporting on asymptomatic cases of the coronavirus as part of an effort to allay public fears that people could be spreading the virus without knowing they are infected with it.
FILE PHOTO: A worker in a protective suit sprays disinfectant at a middle school where classes for students in the final year of senior and junior high school have resumed amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China March 30, 2020. Picture taken March 30, 2020. cnsphoto via REUTERS
But there are concerns that the end of lockdowns will see thousands of infectious people move back into daily life without knowing they carry the virus, because they have no symptoms and so have not been tested. In an effort to dispel public fears about hidden cases of the virus, the government has this week ordered health authorities to turn their attention to finding asymptomatic cases and releasing their data on them.
Hunan province said it had four such cases, all of them imported from abroad, it said in a statement on its website.
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