Eurosurv. Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in young children attending day-care centres in Belgium, May 2020 to February 2022

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• Liesbet Van Heirstraeten[SUP]1[/SUP] , Esra Ekinci[SUP]2[/SUP] , Mathias Smet[SUP]1[/SUP] , Matilda Berkell[SUP]1[/SUP] , Laura Willen[SUP]2[/SUP] , Jasmine Coppens[SUP]3[/SUP] , An Spiessens[SUP]3[/SUP] , Basil Britto Xavier[SUP]1[/SUP] , Christine Lammens[SUP]1[/SUP] , Jan Verhaegen[SUP]4[/SUP] , Pierre Van Damme[SUP]2[/SUP] , Herman Goossens[SUP]1,3[/SUP] , Philippe Beutels[SUP]5[/SUP] , Veerle Matheeussen[SUP]1,3[/SUP] , Stefanie Desmet[SUP]4[/SUP] , Heidi Theeten[SUP]2[/SUP] , Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar[SUP]1[/SUP]

Presence of SARS-CoV-2 was monitored in nasopharyngeal samples from young children aged 6−30 months attending day-care centres (DCCs) in Belgium from May 2020−February 2022. SARS-CoV-2 carriage among DCC children was only detected from November 2021, after emergence of Delta and Omicron variants, in 9 of the 42 DCCs screened. In only one DCC, two children tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 at the same sampling time point, suggesting limited transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Belgian DCCs among young children during the studied period.


https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.21.2200380

 

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