Publications by authors named "Nobuko Tomiyama"
Article Synopsis
- * Analysis focused on transmission routes and secondary attack rates (SARs), finding that 16% of children and 16.7% of teachers in the nursery were infected, with follow-up spread to 25 individuals outside the nursery.
- * The research concluded the Alpha variant has high transmissibility among both children and adults, indicating a significant risk for household transmission from infected children, which has implications for future variants.
Background: School closures are a subject of debate during the present coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Because children are not the main driver of COVID-19 transmission in the community, school education must be prioritized in conjunction with appropriate infection prevention and control measures, as determined by local COVID-19 incidence.
Methods: We investigated the causes and transmission routes of a primary school cluster of COVID-19 that occurred during November and December 2020 in Niigata, Japan.