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80% COVID-19 Cases In India Asymptomatic, Worrying: Top Scientist to NDTV -Parimal Kumar

-NDTV

It is difficult to detect asymptomatic cases and they can be found out only after tracing the contacts of people who have beentested positive, the top scientist said, adding that testing everyone is almost impossible.

New Delhi: 80 per cent of people with coronavirus in India are asymptomatic, or do not show symptoms of the infection, and this is matter of worry, a senior scientist at the country's top medical research body told NDTV.

"80 per cent of the cases are asymptomatic. Our biggest worry is on their detection. There is no other way than contact-tracing," said Dr Raman R Gangakhedkar, a senior scientist at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

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