An issue that has left researchers and doctors puzzled about Covid-19 is how some people are asymptomatic and can still spread the disease while others have severe symptoms.
Now researchers at Wits University have started a new study to look into how many people in one household contract the virus and transmit it without any symptoms in rural areas.
The study will also examine the role of children in virus transmission, which will be important as the schools reopen.” The Mpumalanga component of the study draws participants from communities that form part of the Agincourt Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance System site platform of the SA Medical Research Council-Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit .Professor Kathleen Kahn, who runs the study, said: “Meeting the challenge of Covid-19 in rural South Africa is critical to the national response now more than ever as the pandemic approaches its rural peak.
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