Chinese government to announce the status of people with no symptoms of new type corona on April 1 at 4:25
The Chinese government has announced that it will announce the status of infected people who have not been announced because they have been infected with the new coronavirus but have no symptoms since 1st. It seems likely that it aims to avoid criticism from inside and outside the country for insufficient disclosure of information.
A Chinese health official, the director of the National Health and Health Commission's permanent music director, said at a press conference in Hubei Province on Tuesday, "From April 1, we will announce the asymptomatic infected people and respond to public concerns." He stated that the status of asymptomatic infected persons will be announced daily in the future.
The Chinese government has categorized people who have been infected with the new coronavirus asymptomatic for 14 days, but has stated that they are relatively unlikely to infect others. did not.
However, there were complaints from inside the country that the information was opaque, etc., and the international community was increasingly saying that the numbers released by China might not reflect the actual situation, and the Chinese government It seems that there is a purpose to avoid such criticism from inside and outside Japan.
The National Health and Health Commission has stated that there are 1,541 asymptomatic infections that are being monitored on the 31st, but Hong Kong's English-language newspaper, South China Morning Post, has been reported by the Chinese government. According to undisclosed records, there were more than 43,000 asymptomatic infections by the end of February.
Regarding this problem, in March a Chinese research team published a survey result that the probability of transmitting the virus from asymptomatic infected people to dense contacts was not much different from that of infected people with symptoms. .