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cord-028525-0ckagrt1	Yung, Chee Fu	Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from Adults to Children	2020-07-04		.txt	text/plain	1706	89	56	Beginning on March 5, because of concern that infected children might not display symptoms, the Ministry of Health Singapore implemented screening for SARS-CoV-2 by real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction from nasopharyngeal swabs for all pediatric household contacts (regardless of symptoms) of persons with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19. During March and April, among 137 households with a total of 223 adults (index patients) with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19, 213 children aged ≤16 years were tested for SARS-6 CoV-2; 13 cases were detected in seven households, for an attack rate of 6.1% among children and 5.2% of households with confirmed exposure to COVID-19 (Table) . Based on systematic surveillance and screening of children who were household contacts of persons with confirmed COVID-19, the attack rate of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children was 6.1%. The low attack rate suggests that strict compliance with infection control may be able to eliminate or reduce the risk of transmission from adults to children in household settings.	./cache/cord-028525-0ckagrt1.txt	./txt/cord-028525-0ckagrt1.txt