WORLD_ DEADLY CORONAVIRUS_ Two thirds of coronavirus cases from mainland China may be undetected

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Two thirds of coronavirus cases from mainland China may be undetected

Research has found many coronavirus cases may have remained undetected, as South Korea reports an “eight-fold jump” in cases.


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February 22, 2020 7:50pm

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An alarming number of coronavirus cases originating from mainland China and spread around the world may have remained undetected, new research has found.

It comes as South Korea on Saturday reported an eight-fold jump in viral infections in four days to 433, most of them linked to a church and a hospital in and around the country’s fourth-largest city, where health workers scrambled to screen more than 9,000 worshipers.

A study, shared by the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Anaylsis, discovered that an estimated massive two thirds of coronavirus cases may remain undetected worldwide.

“Although travel restrictions from Wuhan City and other cities across China may have reduced the absolute number of travellers to and from China, we estimated that about two thirds of COVID-19 cases exported from mainland China have remained undetected worldwide, potentially resulting in multiple chains of as yet undetected human-to-human transmission outside mainland China,” the study read.

The study was conducted by analysing the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in different countries and comparing them to the rates of detected cases per flight volume from mainland China.

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