Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in young children attending day-care centres in Belgium, May 2020 to February 2022

Liesbet Van Heirstraeten; Esra Ekinci; Mathias Smet; Matilda Berkell; Laura Willen; Jasmine Coppens; An Spiessens; Basil Britto Xavier; Christine Lammens; Jan Verhaegen; Pierre Van Damme; Herman Goossens; Philippe Beutels; Veerle Matheeussen; Stefanie Desmet; Heidi Theeten; Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.21.2200380

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in young children attending day-care centres in Belgium, May 2020 to February 2022

Liesbet Van Heirstraeten, Esra Ekinci, Mathias Smet, Matilda Berkell, Laura Willen, Jasmine Coppens, An Spiessens, Basil Britto Xavier, Christine Lammens, Jan Verhaegen, Pierre Van Damme, Herman Goossens, Philippe Beutels, Veerle Matheeussen, Stefanie Desmet, Heidi Theeten, Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar

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Presence of SARS-CoV-2 was monitored in nasopharyngeal samples from young children aged 6-30 months attending day-care centres (DCCs) in Belgium from May 2020-February 2022. SARS-CoV-2 carriage among DCC children was only detected from November 2021, after emergence of Delta and Omicron variants, in 9 of the 42 DCCs screened. In only one DCC, two children tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 at the same sampling time point, suggesting limited transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Belgian DCCs among young children during the studied period.

Original language	English
Journal	Eurosurveillance
Volume	27
Issue number	21
Number of pages	5
ISSN	1560-7917
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.21.2200380
Publication status	Published - 2022
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Belgium/epidemiology
COVID-19
Child
Child, Preschool
Humans
SARS-CoV-2

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Van Heirstraeten, L., Ekinci, E., Smet, M., Berkell, M., Willen, L., Coppens, J., Spiessens, A., Xavier, B. B., Lammens, C., Verhaegen, J., Van Damme, P., Goossens, H., Beutels, P., Matheeussen, V., Desmet, S., Theeten, H., & Malhotra-Kumar, S. (2022). Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in young children attending day-care centres in Belgium, May 2020 to February 2022. Eurosurveillance, 27(21). https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.21.2200380

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Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in young children attending day-care centres in Belgium, May 2020 to February 2022

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