Brazil Sao Paulo Corona Infected Over 18% of Children Postponed School Reopening September 18, 5:27
In Brazil, which has the third highest number of people infected with the new coronavirus in the world, a survey of 2000 children aged 4 to 14 years in the largest city of São Paulo revealed that more than 18% of the cases were infected. The city decided to postpone the reopening of the school.
From the 1st to the 3rd of this month, the city of São Paulo conducted a blood test on 2000 children aged 4 to 14 who attended public schools in the city to investigate the infection status of the new coronavirus.
As a result, it was found that 18.4% of all children were infected now or in the past.
Of these, 66% of children had no symptoms such as fever or coughing, and the infection rate was higher for children in schools in the areas where the poor lived.
The city of São Paulo stopped attending public schools in mid-May and was scheduled to resume school next month, but based on this result, it has decided to postpone the reopening period to November or later.
Brazil has the third highest number of infected people in the world, with more than 4.4 million people, and although the number of newly infected people has decreased from one time, 30,000 to 40,000 people are still infected daily. It has been confirmed.