Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
European Programme for Public Health Microbiology Training (EUPHEM), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Euro Surveill. 2021 Jan;26(1). doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.26.1.2002011.
An intense debate on school closures to control the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing in Europe. We prospectively examined transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from confirmed paediatric cases in Norwegian primary schools between August and November 2020. All in-school contacts were systematically tested twice during their quarantine period. With preventive measures implemented in schools, we found minimal child-to-child (0.9%, 2/234) and child-to-adult (1.7%, 1/58) transmission, supporting that under 14 year olds are not the drivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
关于关闭学校以控制 COVID-19 大流行的激烈辩论正在欧洲进行。我们前瞻性地研究了 2020 年 8 月至 11 月期间挪威小学中确诊的 SARS-CoV-2 从儿童病例的传播情况。所有在校接触者在隔离期间均接受了两次系统检测。在学校实施预防措施的情况下,我们发现最小的儿童到儿童(0.9%,2/234)和儿童到成人(1.7%,1/58)传播,支持 14 岁以下儿童不是 SARS-CoV-2 传播的驱动因素。