“It is possible that a large proportion of the population will have COVID-19 yet have no symptoms at all, but we don’t know that yet,” said Dr Mary Lowth.
She wrote for Patient.info: “It seems likely that this will occur more often in the healthiest and the younger age groups, including most children.
“Early research on small numbers suggests it could be 40-50 per cent of cases. It could be even more – figures of 80 per cent have been mentioned. We don’t know.
“Being asymptomatic means that you have no symptoms. However, there are reports of loss of sense of smell in asymptomatic people. Technically even that is a symptom.
“If you live in a house with people with probable COVID-19 infection and you have no symptoms, you may be an asymptomatic case.
