Sunday MagazineDisinfection was found to be 77 per cent effective at stopping the virus from being passed on. The family members had lived with the infected person for four days before and more than 24 hours after that person’s symptoms first appeared. Research in China has suggested that most of the person-to-person transmission in the outbreaks of of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for Covid-19 infection, has occurred in families. The new study sought to see if wearing a face mask, along with measures such as social distancing and disinfection, might help tackle household transmission rates. During this time the spread from the first infected person to other family members happened in 41 out of the 124 families, the researchers said.

Source: Standard Digital June 06, 2020 19:41 UTC