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.
FILE PHOTO: A man and children wearing masks to protect against contracting the coronavirus disease take a walk at a Han River Park in Seoul, South Korea April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Heo Ran
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. “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.
Children with COVID-19 were also more likely to be asymptomatic than adults, which made it harder to identify index cases within that group.
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