Brazil Sao Paulo Over 16% of children and students are infected with the new corona 8:40 on August 19
São Paulo, Brazil's largest city, was tested earlier this month for the new coronavirus in 6,000 children attending public schools and 6,000 students, and found that more than 16% of the population was infected with the past or present, Announced.
The city of Sao Paulo, the largest city in Brazil, conducted blood tests on 6 to 10 children aged 4 to 14 and attending public schools in the city from 6 to 10 this month.
As a result, it was found that more than 16%, or more than 960 people, were infected with the new coronavirus at present or in the past.
In addition, the lower the income of parents, the higher the infection rate, and the poorer children were infected twice as much as the wealthy children.
Among those who were infected, 64.4% of the children said they had no symptoms such as fever or cough.
In São Paulo, we planned to stop at a public school in the middle of May and resumed it in October, but we are planning to reconsider the time to restart the school based on this result.