Weekly SARS-CoV-2 Sentinel Surveillance in Primary Schools, Kindergartens, and Nurseries, Germany, June‒November 2020

We investigated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections in primary schools, kindergartens, and nurseries in Germany. Of 3,169 oropharyngeal swab specimens, only 2 were positive by real-time reverse transcription PCR. Asymptomatic children attending these institutions do not appear...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Emerging infectious diseases 2021-08, Vol.27 (8), p.2192-2196
Hauptverfasser:	Hoch, Martin, Vogel, Sebastian, Kolberg, Laura, Dick, Elisabeth, Fingerle, Volker, Eberle, Ute, Ackermann, Nikolaus, Sing, Andreas, Huebner, Johannes, Rack-Hoch, Anita, Schober, Tilmann, von Both, Ulrich
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Age Asymptomatic Child Children & youth Control coronavirus disease Coronaviruses COVID-19 Day care centers Disease control Disease transmission Dispatch Elementary schools Epidemics Expedited Germany Germany - epidemiology Health aspects Health surveillance Humans Infant Infections Infectious diseases Methods Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children Nurseries, Infant Nursery schools Pandemics Pediatrics Public health Risk factors Safety and security measures SARS-CoV-2 Schools Sentinel health events Sentinel Surveillance Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Statistics viruses
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Zusammenfassung:	We investigated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections in primary schools, kindergartens, and nurseries in Germany. Of 3,169 oropharyngeal swab specimens, only 2 were positive by real-time reverse transcription PCR. Asymptomatic children attending these institutions do not appear to be driving the pandemic when appropriate infection control measures are used.
ISSN:	1080-6040 1080-6059
DOI:	10.3201/eid2708.204859