Interesting new figures in NSW government’s weekly COVID inspection report have found alarming facts.
Many of those who have coronavirus, have no idea that they have it.
The public became aware of the behavior on Sydney’s northern beaches on 16 December, and in the days that followed a sudden outbreak of disease before localized lockouts and other public health measures delayed its spread.
A new breakdown of data collected by NSW contact detectors and virus testers shows that almost everyone who tested positive before Dec. 16 felt sick or showed signs of COVID -19.
But as scores of centers were added to a list of places where test takers were persuaded to “immediately” test, more and more asymptomatic people were diagnosed with the infectious virus , suggesting that many may be infected, and infect others, unknowingly.
As the collection of northern beaches increased, more people were tested with COVID-19 without showing any symptoms.
A graph included in the latest COVID-19 weekly monitoring report shows that a growing proportion of asymptomatic in the days after the revolution was known.
“Most cases reported signs at the time of diagnosis at the outset of the revolution,” NSW Health officials wrote in the report.
“By directing messages to people in the North Beach area advising them to get tested a greater proportion of asymptomatic cases came at the time of diagnosis in the final stages of the revolution. ”
In the seven days up to December 19, 19 people received a positive COVID-19 diagnosis despite not feeling any symptoms.
“(These individuals) had sought testing because they were either close relatives or had been in a place visited by confirmed cases of COVID-19,” the report’s authors wrote.
Identifying COVID-19 infections before the onset of symptoms has been a key focus in the state’s fight against the coronavirus, the report says.
First published as a scary figure in the NSW revolution