H. Nishiura, Tetsuro Kobayashi, T. Miyama, Ayako Suzuki, Sung-mok Jung, Katsuma Hayashi, Ryo Kinoshita, Yichi Yang, Baoyin Yuan, A. Akhmetzhanov, Natalie M. Linton
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A total of 565 Japanese citizens evacuated from Wuhan, China to Japan were screened for symptoms and also undertook reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction testing, identifying 5 asymptomatic and 7 symptomatic passengers testing positive for 2019-nCoV.
Abstract
A total of 565 Japanese citizens were evacuated from Wuhan, China to Japan. All passengers were screened for symptoms and also undertook reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction testing, identifying 5 asymptomatic and 7 symptomatic passengers testing positive for 2019-nCoV. We show that the screening result is suggestive of the asymptomatic ratio at 41.6%.
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NISHIURA, H., et al. Estimation of the asymptomatic ratio of novel coronavirus infections (COVID-19). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2020, 94: 154–155.