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School children, coronavirus, Covid-19

The study confirmed that children appear to show fewer symptoms than adults and are less contagious.

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Published: Fri 26 Jun 2020, 3:00 PM

Last updated: Fri 26 Jun 2020, 5:09 PM

French scientists have said that school children do not appear to transmit the Covid-19 to peers or teachers. 
Scientists at Institut Pasteur studied 1,340 people, including 510 students from six primary schools in Crepy-en-Valois, a town northeast of Paris that was hard-hit by the outbreak in February and March. 
The study confirmed that children appear to show fewer symptoms than adults and are less contagious. 
The researchers found that 61 per cent of the parents of infected kids had contracted the virus, compared with about 7 per cent of parents of healthy ones. These findings suggest that these children were infected by their parents who had contracted the contagion.
While there are some reports corroborating the study conducted by Institut Pasteur, at least one study pointed the other way, suggesting the date on children has been contradictory so far. 
Therefore more studies on schools were needed because of the small number of cases studied, epidemiologist Arnaud Fontanet and colleagues said. They also found that an estimated 41 per cent of the children infected with Covid-19 showed no symptoms, compared with about 10 per cent of adults, reported Bloomberg.


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