No evidence of secondary transmission of COVID-19 from children attending school in Ireland, 2020

As many countries begin to lift some of the restrictions to contain COVID-19 spread, lack of evidence of transmission in the school setting remains. We examined Irish notifications of SARS-CoV2 in the school setting before school closures on 12 March 2020 and identified no paediatric transmission. T...

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Autores principales: Heavey, Laura, Casey, Geraldine, Kelly, Ciara, Kelly, David, McDarby, Geraldine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2020
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7268273/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32489179
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.21.2000903
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Casey, Geraldine
Kelly, Ciara
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description As many countries begin to lift some of the restrictions to contain COVID-19 spread, lack of evidence of transmission in the school setting remains. We examined Irish notifications of SARS-CoV2 in the school setting before school closures on 12 March 2020 and identified no paediatric transmission. This adds to current evidence that children do not appear to be drivers of transmission, and we argue that reopening schools should be considered safe accompanied by certain measures.
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spelling pubmed-72682732020-06-04 No evidence of secondary transmission of COVID-19 from children attending school in Ireland, 2020 Heavey, Laura Casey, Geraldine Kelly, Ciara Kelly, David McDarby, Geraldine Euro Surveill Rapid Communication As many countries begin to lift some of the restrictions to contain COVID-19 spread, lack of evidence of transmission in the school setting remains. We examined Irish notifications of SARS-CoV2 in the school setting before school closures on 12 March 2020 and identified no paediatric transmission. This adds to current evidence that children do not appear to be drivers of transmission, and we argue that reopening schools should be considered safe accompanied by certain measures. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2020-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7268273/ /pubmed/32489179 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.21.2000903 Text en This article is copyright of the authors or their affiliated institutions, 2020. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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