As local infections peter out and new cases surface among travellers returning home, the existence of virus carriers with no symptoms is fuelling public concern that people could be spreading it without knowing they are ill.
Medical workers who volunteered in Wuhan to help combat the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak stand as a group before they board a bus to return home, in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on March 31, 2020.China will start releasing information from Wednesday on coronavirus patients who show no disease symptoms, ordering them into quarantine for 14 days, a health official said, after the mainland witnessed its first rise in infections in five days.
Monday's 48 new infections, and one death, in mainland China were up from 31 the previous day, the commission said, reversing four days of declines. All were imported, taking China's tally of such cases to 771, with no new local infection reported. The annual two-day"gaokao" test drew more than 10 million candidates last year, state media have said.
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