In addition to the asymptomatic patients, there were 36 new infections of coronavirus in China as of Tuesday, of which 35 were imported cases.
China reported 130 new asymptomatic coronavirus cases on Wednesday, including the category in its daily count for the first time after pressure from the Chinese public and international health experts.
The commission said it would report regularly on the number of coronavirus carriers who displayed no medical symptoms, amid mounting concerns about the accuracy of China’s caseload data. Zhang Wenhong, director of Huashan Hospital's department of infectious diseases as well as of the Shanghai panel overseeing the treatment of Covid-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, estimated that between 18 and 31 per cent of infected patients are asymptomatic carriers.
Classified Chinese government data seen by the South China Morning Post showed the number of silent carriers could be as high as one-third of those who tested positive. The data suggested more than 43,000 people on mainland China had tested positive by the end of February but had no immediate symptoms.
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