45 Percent of Coronavirus Infected Cases are Asymptomatic: Study

According to review research, untreated infected patients can spread the infection for a longer period of time
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A review of recent studies involving coronavirus infected has revealed that there are about 45 percent cases of infected in which people do not show any signs of infection and this type of infection can damage the body of people from inside.

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Several scientists, including Eric Topol of the Scripps Research Tonslational Institute of the United States, reviewed data on symptomatic cases without the novel coronavirus. According to the study published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, 40 to 45 percent of the total patients with SARS-COV-2 infection may be without symptoms and their role in spreading the infection is very much.

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"The spread of infection in this way makes the task of controlling it more challenging," says Topol. "Our review underscores the need for an investigation," he further said. It is clear that given the high rate of untreated infection we need to expand our scope otherwise the virus will continue to dodge us. "According to review research, untreated infected patients can spread the infection for a longer period of time. He said that to deal with this problem, a large number of infected people without symptoms need to be studied.

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