Coronavirus: Up to 80% diagnosed with COVID-19 have no symptoms, health secretary says

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Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 70-80% of people who test positive for coronavirus in the UK don't have symptoms

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said up to 80% of people who test positive for coronavirus in the UK don't have symptoms.

According to data released by the Office For National statistics last week, 71% of people who tested positive for coronavirus had not displayed symptoms. But speaking at the daily government briefing, Mr Hancock suggested the number of asymptomatic cases could be higher.The health secretary said:"The big-picture answer is that yes there are some people who don't have symptoms but do have the virus.

"And in fact, in the ONS study we find that around 70-80% of people who test positive don't have symptoms."That is quite a significant finding and one of the important things about this disease, in the same way that asymptomatic transmission is one of the things that makes controlling this disease really hard and is novel for any coronavirus, and is one of the things that makes it so difficult.

Around 20,000 households were invited to take part in the ONS study, and so far nearly half of households have provided at least one swab for testing.

 

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this is the human equivalent of feline Coronavirus. It gets passed about in the cat community all the time. But when the cat becomes stressed it then develops the secondary stage which causes death. Firmly believe this is no different. Look it up.

Wait so how did they pass the test to get a test ?

Are the tests giving wrong results?

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