GENEVA– The spread of Covid-19 by someone who is disappointing signs seems unusual, Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s technical lead for coronavirus action and head of the emerging illness and zoonoses system, said during a media instruction in Geneva on Monday.
” From the information we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person in fact transmits onward to a secondary individual,” Van Kerkhove said on Monday.
” We have a variety of reports from nations who are doing extremely comprehensive contact tracing. They’re following asymptomatic cases, they’re following contacts and they’re not discovering secondary transmission onward. It is very unusual– and much of that is not published in the literature,” she stated. “We are continuously taking a look at this information and we’re trying to get more info from nations to really answer this concern. It still seems rare that an asymptomatic private actually transfers onward.”
Van Kerkhove went on to explain how the novel coronavirus, a respiratory pathogen, spreads out through beads, which can be launched when someone coughs or sneezes.
” It passes from an individual through transmittable beads. If we in fact followed all of the symptomatic cases, separated those cases, followed the contacts and quarantined those cases, we would drastically lower– I would love to be able to offer a proportion of how much transmission we would actually stop– however it would be an extreme decrease in transmission,” she stated.
Van Kerkhove also said that what seem asymptomatic cases of Covid-19 typically end up being cases of mild