Introduction:

COVID-19 is an emerging disease of pandemic category. The clinical forms are variable and the asymptomatic form has high frequency.

Objective:

To describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 positive and asymptomatic patients.

Methods:

A descriptive study was carried out, including all asymptomatic patients on admission, whit a confirmed diagnosis, by the real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction test for SARS-CoV-2 infection at Military Hospital “Dr. Fermín Valdés Domínguez” from March to July 2020. The variables age, sex, clinical expressiveness, clinical and epidemiological history were studied. Frequencies and percentage were used.

Results:

The 41,8 percent of the patients remained asymptomatic, the age group between 20 and 39 years (33,3 %) and female sex predominated (55,6 %). The most frequent source of infection was contact with confirmed case (88,9 %) and the most frequent municipalities were Holguín, Gibara and Banes. Older adults and hypertension were most frequent clinical risk factors (20,0 and 57,8 % respectively) and 57,8 % of the patients had no comorbidities.

Conclusions:

Young adults predominated, female sex, from Holguín, Gibara and Banes municipalities with a history of being a contact confirmed case. Elderly condition and hypertension were the most frequent risk factors and most of the cases did not have comorbidities.

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