School incident a lesson in COVID transmission
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Experts call for study and documentation of outbreak in Malappuram schools
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Experts call for study and documentation of outbreak in Malappuram schools
Public health experts have called for a deeper epidemiological study and documentation of the transmission of COVID-19 in the two schools in Malappuram district and draw lessons from the incident as schoolchildren may play a key role in augmenting disease transmission through the community.
This is especially so as children, while they are as susceptible as adults to the disease, have mostly asymptomatic or mild infection and in all likelihood would go unrecognised as potential disease transmitters.