Infection and transmission of COVID-19 among students and teachers in schools in Japan after the reopening in June 2020

We aimed to investigate the confirmed COVID-19 cases among students and teachers in elementary schools (ages 6–12 years) and junior high schools (ages 13–15 years) in Japan between 1 June and 31 July 2020. We requested all schools to provide reports when students or teachers tested positive for COVI...

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Autores principales: Wada, Koji, Okabe, Nobuhiko, Shobugawa, Yugo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
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Original Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7526027/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34192181
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000854
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description We aimed to investigate the confirmed COVID-19 cases among students and teachers in elementary schools (ages 6–12 years) and junior high schools (ages 13–15 years) in Japan between 1 June and 31 July 2020. We requested all schools to provide reports when students or teachers tested positive for COVID-19. A total of 207 cases were reported among students. Household transmission was identified as the dominant transmission route, confirmed in 71.4% of elementary schools and 60.3% of junior high schools. A total of 39 cases were reported among teachers, of which transmission route was unknown in 72.4% of elementary schools and 90.0% of junior high schools.
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spelling pubmed-75260272020-09-30 Infection and transmission of COVID-19 among students and teachers in schools in Japan after the reopening in June 2020 Wada, Koji Okabe, Nobuhiko Shobugawa, Yugo BMJ Paediatr Open Original Research Letter We aimed to investigate the confirmed COVID-19 cases among students and teachers in elementary schools (ages 6–12 years) and junior high schools (ages 13–15 years) in Japan between 1 June and 31 July 2020. We requested all schools to provide reports when students or teachers tested positive for COVID-19. A total of 207 cases were reported among students. Household transmission was identified as the dominant transmission route, confirmed in 71.4% of elementary schools and 60.3% of junior high schools. A total of 39 cases were reported among teachers, of which transmission route was unknown in 72.4% of elementary schools and 90.0% of junior high schools. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7526027/ /pubmed/34192181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000854 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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Infection and transmission of COVID-19 among students and teachers in schools in Japan after the reopening in June 2020
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title_short Infection and transmission of COVID-19 among students and teachers in schools in Japan after the reopening in June 2020
title_sort infection and transmission of covid-19 among students and teachers in schools in japan after the reopening in june 2020
topic Original Research Letter
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7526027/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34192181
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000854
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