As the situation of the domestic new coronary pneumonia epidemic gradually improves, asymptomatic patients have become the focus of attention from all walks of life, and the government has also issued regulations for the management of asymptomatic patients.

On April 8th, the State Council issued the “New Coronavirus Asymptomatic Infected Persons Management Regulations” in response to the new coronavirus infection pneumonia joint prevention and control mechanism, reiterating that asymptomatic infected persons have Infectious, there is a risk of transmission. It is required to strengthen the monitoring and discovery of asymptomatic infected persons and standardize the reports of asymptomatic infected persons. Medical and health institutions at all levels and all types of asymptomatic infections should report directly to the Internet within 2 hours.

The “Management Standards” also clearly proposes to strengthen the management of asymptomatic infected persons, asymptomatic infected persons should concentrate on medical observation for 14 days, and close contacts should also concentrate on medicine Observe for 14 days.

According to the “Management Standards”, asymptomatic infection of New Coronavirus (referred to as asymptomatic infection) refers to no relevant clinical manifestations, such as fever, cough, sore throat, etc. Symptoms and signs that are self-perceivable or clinically recognizable, but positive for the detection of new coronavirus pathogens in specimens such as the respiratory tract.

There are two cases of asymptomatic infections: First, after 14 days of isolation medical observation, there are no symptoms and signs that can be self-perceived or clinically recognizable; second It is a state of “asymptomatic infection” in the incubation period.

So, how big is the current group of asymptomatic infected people in China, and what is the potential of asymptomatic infected people to spread the virus, how is it currently controlled in China?


How many people with asymptomatic infections in China

During the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, asymptomatic infections are not a key population for prevention and control, and China has not announced related data.

Until March 31, the National Health and Health Commission ’s Bureau for Disease Control and Prevention disclosed in the “Questions and Answers on the Prevention and Control of Asymptomatic Infections of New Coronavirus”, as of At 24 o’clock on March 30, 2020, there were 1541 cases of asymptomatic infections under medical observation, including 205 cases imported from abroad.

Since then, China has started to disclose the number of asymptomatic people every day.

According to the official website of the National Health and Health Commission, as of April 8 at 24:00