NEW DELHI : Even as infections continued to double every seven and a half days, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Monday that the majority of covid-19 cases in the country could be without any symptoms. “At least 80 out of every 100 Covid-19 patients may be asymptomatic or could be showing mild symptoms.
It takes a few days before an infected person begins to show symptoms and the probability of being detected positive is highest when symptoms begin to show," said Dr R.
Gangakhedkar, senior scientist at ICMR, New Delhi. “It is a new disease but we are doing everything we can to combat it. As of now, we are not planning to change the testing criteria," he said, when asked if this needed a change in testing strategy to