Coronavirus

(asked on 30th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide evidence that covid-19 can be spread by asymptomatic people.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 27th January 2021

Evidence that COVID-19 can be spread by asymptomatic people is available at the following link:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7508369/

Current evidence shows that the COVID-19 virus is primarily transmitted between people through respiratory droplets and contact routes.

Public Health England has published further information about COVID-19 transmission which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/phe-factors-contributing-to-risk-of-sars-cov2-transmission-in-various-settings-26-november-2020

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