China Worries About Asymptomatic COVID-19 Patients Spreading the Virus Further

A man wearing a mask carries items he bought at a supermarket in Wuhan, China on March 30, 2020. NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images

As more cases of asymptomatic patients carrying the CCP virus appear in China, medical experts recently expressed alarm that they could be further spreading the pathogen and cause another severe outbreak.

“My team tested some patients who had no symptoms for three weeks, but the virus was found in their blood,” said Zhang Wenhong, head of a clinical expert team in Shanghai in charge of dealing with the current pandemic, during a research seminar on viruses held on March 27. “The asymptomatic carriers are the biggest risks [of a new outbreak].”