SEOUL: South Korean epidemiologists have found that people were more likely to contract the new coronavirus from members of their own households ...
Women wearing masks shop at a cosmetic shop in a department store in Seoul, South Korea, Jul 2, 2020. SEOUL: South Korean epidemiologists have found that people were more likely to contract the new coronavirus from members of their own households than from contacts outside the home.
A study published in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Jul 16 looked in detail at 5,706"index patients" who had tested positive for the coronavirus and more than 59,000 people who came into contact with them.The findings showed just two out of 100 infected people had caught the virus from non-household contacts, while one in 10 had contracted the disease from their own families.
By age group, the infection rate within the household was higher when the first confirmed cases were teenagers or people in their 60s and 70s. "This is probably because these age groups are more likely to be in close contact with family members as the group is in more need of protection or support," Jeong Eun-kyeong, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and one of the authors of the study, told a briefing.
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