| Setting |
Proportion |
Comment |
| Diamond Princess cruise ship, Yokohama, Japan (n=-634 tested positive). [1] |
18%
(95% credible interval 16%-20%). |
Most infections occurred before the quarantine start. |
| Vo’Euganeo, 50 km west of Venice, Italian village [2] |
50% to 75%—were asymptomatic |
In an open letter to the authorities in the Tuscany region |
| MERS-CoV [3] |
Increased from 0% to 29% over time |
As the MERS-CoV progressed over time there was more identification of asymptomatic individuals due to increased surveillance and contacts testing. |
| 328 adults in Shanghai [4] |
13 (4%) patients were asymptomatic |
|
| Japanese nationals evacuated from Wuhan (n=565) [5] |
31% (95% CI: 7.7% to 54%) |
Based on temperature screening before disembarkation, interviews on symptoms including fever, cough, and non-specific symptoms |
| 23 Residents of a Long-Term Care Nursing Facility King County, Washington[6] |
10 (43%) had symptoms, and 13 (57%) were asymptomatic.
Seven days after testing, 10 of 13 asymptomatics developed symptoms |
Symptom-based screening could fail to identify approximately half of nursing home residents with COVID-19. |
| Airport screening of travellers [7] |
17% undetectable by typical screening procedures |
Based on: A familial cluster of pneumonia associated with the 2019 novel coronavirus indicating person-to-person transmission: Lancet. 2020;0(0):S0140-6736(20)30154-9. |
| Hospitalised in Beijing, China (n=262)[8] |
13 (5.0%) asymptomatic cases |
|
| 391 cases including 148 family index cases in Zhejiang Province [9] |
54 (14%) asymptomatic |
higher family secondary attack rate, the secondary attack rate of spouses is higher than other family members. |
| Chinese perspective [10] |
Over the past few days, asymptomatic patients were found in many Chinese cities. |
Whether asymptomatic people can transmit SARS‐CoV‐2 to others is unclear.
Another uncertainty is whether those who are asymptomatic can cause large‐scale infections. |
| 36 children, Zhejiang, China [11] |
Asymptomatics, 10 (28%) |
7 had acute upper respiratory symptoms (19%) |
| Data-based analysis, modelling and forecasting of the COVID-19 outbreak [12] |
|
The number of asymptomatic and mild cases with subclinical manifestations that probably did not present to hospitals for treatment may be substantial; these cases, which possibly represent the bulk of the COVID-19 infections, remain unrecognized, |
| 166 new infections in China [13] |
four-fifths of cases are asymptomatic, China figures indicate |
Numbers quoted not verifiable |
| Nanjing, China (n=24) [14] |
|
5 (21%) developed symptoms (fever, cough, fatigue and etc.) during hospitalization. |
| 450 case reports from 93 Chinese cities. [15] |
|
estimate that people who had not yet developed symptoms transmitted around 10% of the cases they studied. |
| People’s Hospital of Daofu county. Tibetan population (n=83) [16] |
Asymptomatic carriers 22% |
median age of asymptomatic carriers was 31 years and 1/3rd were students, aged <20 years. |
| WHO Q&A: Similarities and differences – COVID-19 and influenza [17] |
suggest that 80% of infections are mild or asymptomatic, |
|
| Iceland [18] |
50% of the people who tested positive had no symptoms.” |
See also: First results of the voluntary screening in Iceland[19] |
| CDC [20] |
A significant number of individuals that are infected actually remain asymptomatic. That may be as many as 25%. |
|
| Interim Clinical Guidance for Management of Patients with Confirmed Coronavirus Disease [21] |
Among children in China, illness severity was lower with 94% having asymptomatic, mild or moderate disease, |
|
| Northern Italy, 60 volunteer blood donors [22] |
40 (67%) tested positive |
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