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Johannesburg – One challenge that has left researchers and doctors speechless about Covid-19 is how other people are asymptomatic and can still spread the disease, while others show severe symptoms.
Now, researchers at the University of Wits have presented a new study on how many other people in a family contract the virus and transmit it without any symptoms in rural areas.
Professor Cheryl Cohen, lead researcher at the study, said: “The study will answer important questions about the frequency of asymptomatic infection and how other people inflamed with Sars-CoV-2, but remain asymptomatic, transmit the virus compared to those with symptoms.
The study will also read about the role of young people in the transmission of the virus, which will be as schools reopen. »
Cohen is a professor of epidemiology at the Wits School of Public Health and director of the Center for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis at the National Institute of Communicable Diseases.
The Mpumalanga component of the component attracts participants from the communities that are part of the Sociodemographic and Health Surveillance System platform of the MEDICAL Research Council of SA-Research Research of Rural Health Transitions of Wits (Agincourt).
Agincourt is a major company on the rural Wits campus in Bushbuckridge.
Professor Kathleen Kahn, who leads the study, said: “Tackling the Covid-19 challenge in rural South Africa is more than ever for national reaction as the pandemic approaches its rural peak. This requires a deep understanding of the differences in transmission of the virus between families and rural communities. »
Dr. Neil Martinson, Executive Director of the Perinatal Wits HIV Research Unit at Baragwanath Hospital, is a principal investigator at Phirst-C in Jouberton Municipality, Klerksdorp.
He said it was vital to examine the disease even in the outdoor spaces of major cities and the metro: “It is vital to get more data from outdoor contexts in primary metropolitan spaces. This study will provide a greater understanding of the effect and transmission in peripheral municipalities where fitness services, in addition to Covid-19 control sites, are not available as in giant villages “.
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