According to the official website of the National Health Commission, at 0-24:00 on April 2, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 1,455 new locally confirmed cases and 11,691 cases of local asymptomatic infection. Among them, asymptomatic infected people involved 24 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, with Shanghai and Jilin reporting the most, with 7788 cases in Shanghai and 3499 cases in Jilin respectively.
Health Times noted that this is the first time since the National Health Commission announced the report, outcome and management of asymptomatic infected people in the daily epidemic notification on April 1, 2020, and the number of asymptomatic infected people reported exceeded 10,000.
Wu Jinglei, director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, said at the press conference: "From an international point of view, the asymptomatic number of people infected with the new crown virus has gradually increased recently, especially after Aomi Kerong is the main epidemic strain, the asymptomatic infected people can reach 80% to 90%, and the proportion of asymptomatic infected people in Shanghai is similar to the data of other countries and regions." ”
