First wave: A drill in December enabled South Korea's effective response to the coronavirus: "We were blind luck."
Asymptomatic patients with Covid-19 are driving a surge in new cases in South Korea, thwarting efforts to control transmission from the Asian country that managed to keep infections under control in previous outbreaks.
South Korea reported 569 new cases this Thursday, a level not seen in nearly nine months, as it grapples with the
third wave
of the pandemic that appears to be worsening despite tough new social distancing measures.
With young people at the center of the increase,
South Korean
health authorities
estimate that asymptomatic patients now account for 40% of all infections, a steep 20-30% increase since June.
This confirms research that approximately one in five infected people will generally experience no symptoms.
The rate is much lower in
China
, where the state disease control center said in February that about 1% of the more than 70,000 cases it analyzed were asymptomatic.
In
Tokyo
, about 19% of patients are asymptomatic.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
Know more
South Korea
Coronavirus
Covid 19
Science and Health
Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine is not only American, it was born by a couple of researchers of Turkish origin in Germany
SaludSanidad estimates that Spain will be able to immunize 10 million people with Pfizer's vaccine against Covid
Covid-19Why valve masks do not stop the spread of coronavirus
See links of interest
News
Translator
Programming
Films
2021 calendar
2020 calendar
Topics
Coronavirus
CSKA Moscow - Real Madrid
Maccabi Tel Aviv - Villarreal
Olympiacos Piraeus - TD Systems Baskonia
AZ - Real Sociedad
Granada CF - Omonia Nicosia