Delivery of infection from asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19 in a familial cluster

On Dec 31, 2019, the government of Hubei Province, China, first reported a group of confused patients with pneumonia (The Central Government of the People ’s Republic of China, 2020). Metagenomics sequencing analysis revealed a novel coronavirus, which was officially named SARS-CoV-2 and is the cause of the disease named COVID-19 (World health Organization, 2020). The National Health Commission (NHC) set COVID-19 as a category B infectious disease w ith A-class management on Jan 20 (The Central Government of the People’s Republic of China, 2020).

Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - April 1, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Feng Ye, Shicai Xu, Zhihua Rong, Ronghua Xu, Xiaowei Liu, Pingfu Deng, Hai Liu, Xuejun Xu Source Type: research