Research says that young children with high viral load are prone to become "invisible communicators"

China News Agency, Hong Kong, April 6th (Reporter Han Xingtong) The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) School of Medicine announced on the 6th that a survey found that children are prone to become "invisible spreaders" of the new crown virus.

The research team of the Faculty of Medicine at CUHK compared the proportion of children diagnosed in Hong Kong , the Mainland, Italy, Spain and the United States, and found that the percentage in Hong Kong is relatively high.

Since the end of March last year, the School of Medicine of CUHK has provided free stool testing services for the new coronavirus.

Chen Jixiang, head of the Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, CUHK, who is in charge of testing, pointed out that through stool testing, most of the young children were found to be "invisible communicators.

Therefore, the research team recommends that the SAR government pay more attention to the role of this age group in community communication.