{"id":23544,"date":"2020-04-11T17:39:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T12:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=23544"},"modified":"2020-04-11T17:39:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T12:09:53","slug":"asymptomatic-cases-are-silent-spreaders-of-the-coronavirus-disease-dak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=23544","title":{"rendered":"Asymptomatic cases are silent spreaders of the Coronavirus disease : DAK"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><em>Asymptomatic coronavirus cases can infect others: DAK<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Srinagar Apr 11:<\/em><\/strong><em> With more than 70 percent COVID-19 cases in Kashmir valley showing no symptoms, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Saturday said asymptomatic cases of the novel (new) coronavirus can infect other people and spread the disease. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cAsymptomatic cases are silent spreaders of the disease,\u201d said DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cFeeling good or having absence of symptoms doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t infect someone else,\u201d he said.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Dr Nisar said while people displaying symptoms spread the virus through droplets when they cough or sneeze, someone who is not showing the symptoms, but still has the virus can transmit the disease in the same way.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cThe first confirmation that the novel coronavirus could be transmitted by asymptomatic people came in February, when a case study described a 20 year old woman from Wuhan China who passed the virus to five family members but never got physically sick herself ,\u201d he said.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cEmerging body of data suggests that asymptomatic carriers are more likely contributing to the rapid spread of the disease making it challenging for experts to assess the true extend of the pandemic,\u201d he added.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>While early data showed that asymptomatic transmission was a rarity, Dr Nisar said a recent study published in the British Medical Journal suggested that 78 percent people with COVID-19 had no symptoms. The new paper is based on the data that Chinese authorities began publishing daily from April 01 on the number of new cases in the country that are asymptomatic. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cMore than 70 percent confirmed cases of novel coronavirus in Kashmir valley are asymptomatic. That is a huge number. These are the contacts. We just don\u2019t know how many more may be out there,\u201d he said.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cThe high percentage of asymptomatic individuals should motivate us for mass screening of the population.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Understanding exactly how coronavirus is spreading is important in containing the illness and keeping people healthy,\u201d said Dr Nisar.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asymptomatic coronavirus cases can infect others: DAK Srinagar Apr 11: With more than 70 percent COVID-19 cases in Kashmir valley showing no symptoms, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Saturday said asymptomatic cases of the novel (new) coronavirus can infect other people and spread the disease. \u201cAsymptomatic cases are silent spreaders of the disease,\u201d said DAK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}