Even as Covid-19 wreaks havoc across the world, governments are trying to limit the spread of the disease by imposing several lockdowns. However, this continues to remain an arduous task. Against this backdrop, tracing individuals with the disease has become the primary task for all health care institutions across countries. But this is not easy, especially because of several instances of asymptomatic cases.
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The guidelines for the home isolation are being prepared and will be announced soon
The Telangana govt is set to introduce an app for monitoring the health of asymptomatic Covid-19 patients in home isolation
Around 40 per cent of the confirmed coronavirus cases in the US were asymptomatic, according to the country's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Testing among quarantined contacts of patients with Covid-19 in a correctional and detention facility in the US identified a high proportion of asymptomatic and presymptomatic cases
The revised protocol also recommended avoiding short duration duties of up to seven days unless deemed crucial for the interest of the services
L-G's direction was substituted by the Delhi government's order which did away with the mandatory five-day institutional quarantine for asymptomatic patients
This door to door survey will be conducted from June 16 to July 31
Scientists, including Eric Topol from the Scripps Research Translational Institute in the US, analysed public datasets on asymptomatic infections of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2
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Saying that the world has been achieving a lot in knowing the new virus, the WHO chief told reporters that "there's still a lot we don't know"
Van Kerkhove said: What I was referring to yesterday were very few studies, some two or three studies that have been published, that actually try to follow asymptomatic cases
Van Kerkhove also said that what appear to be asymptomatic cases of Covid-19 often turn out to be cases of mild disease
Government's order completely "violates and infringes the fundamental right to health of the citizen which also includes the right to avail medical test and treatment" the PIL says
The passenger manifest will then be forwarded to the respective District Magistrates (DMs) under whose jurisdiction the passenger stays
In an order, the city government also instructed all district magistrates to keep a watch on the implementation of the norm
The National Health Commission said on Monday that no new domestically transmitted Covid-19 cases were reported on the mainland on Sunday
Healthcare workers constituted about 5.2 per cent of the total infected, according to the study published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research (IJMR) on Friday evening
Some trains to ferry stranded migrants and others have already started running while domestic air services resumed from Monday
Here's a look at major coronavirus related developments across the world