A study published in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed 1 in 10 had contracted the disease from their own families.
The findings showed just two out of 100 COVID-19 infected people had caught the virus from non-household contacts, while one in 10 had contracted the disease from their own families.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.
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. Children aged nine and under were least likely to be the index patient, said Dr. Choe Young-june, a Hallym University College of Medicine assistant professor who co-led the work, although he noted that the sample size of 29 was small compared to the 1,695 20-to-29-year-olds studied.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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