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How many people have Covid-19 and don’t even know it?

5 April 2020

2:52 AM

5 April 2020

2:52 AM

Just how many of us have Covid-19 and are not even aware of it? It’s a question at the heart of this crisis. Epidemiologists are deeply divided, and no-one truly knows. Yesterday came news from China that 130 of the 166 people most recently found to be infected with SARS-CoV-2 there have proved to be asymptomatic.

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