Asymptomatic Patients with Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

摘要

Since the outbreak of the new coronavirus in Wuhan in December2019, it has now spread to more than 100 countries around theworld. The cumulative number of confirmed cases is as highas 1.1 million, with 58,000 deaths, bringing huge challenges tothe people world-wide. The Chinese government has curbed therising epidemic situation in China through strict prevention anddisease control mechanisms (1-3). At present, there are only 1,021confirmed cases and only 300 critical cases (4). Hubei Province,the epicenter of the epidemic, has been deregulated, whereasWuhan will be deregulated on April 8. However, while celebratingthe victory over pneumonia, we should not ignore a very seriouschallenge. There may be many asymptomatic patients in China.As yet, there are 1,400 known asymptomatic patients in China (4).Since many asymptomatic patients are unknown and therefore notisolated, it is very difficult to control the outbreak. Therefore, in thisstudy, we present 25 asymptomatic patients that we hope will givesignificant insights into COVID-19. This work was approved by theethics committee of Xiangyang first people's Hospital Affiliated toHubei University of Medicine [(2019) LSZ (S109)] and informedconsent was obtained from the patients for clinical research.