Around 69% coronavirus patients in India who were tested did not show any symptoms of the infection, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said.
Till now, India has tested a total of 4,47,812 samples and out of these, 18,601 people were positive. Worldwide data showed that 80% of total coronavirus cases had no or mild COVID-19 symptoms, health ministry said.
Growing evidence of "silent spreaders" who are unknowingly infecting others, have sparked concerns. “Among the total coronavirus tests conducted so far in India, 69% were asymptomatic and 31% were symptomatic.
Which means for one positive patient when we initiated contact tracing, on average we found two asymptomatic patients," ICMR’s head of epidemiology and communicable