The WHO on Tuesday backtracked on claims that it is “very rare” for asymptomatic sufferers of Covid-19 to transmit the virus.
Current evidence suggests that between 6 and 41 per cent of the population could have Covid-19 without showing symptoms and that some of those individuals are able to pass on the disease, said Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, Covid-19 lead at the WHO.
"We do know that some people who are asymptomatic, or some people who don't have symptoms, can transmit the virus on," she said. "What we need to better understand is how many of the people in the population don't have symptoms and, separately, how many of those individuals go on to transmit to others."
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