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Covid-19 transmitted mainly by ‘superspreaders’ - Contact tracing study

The transmission of COVID-19 in India has been driven mainly by superspreaders or a small percentage of infected people, according to the largest contact tracing study in the country which also shows that children are key to the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The researchers also found a high prevalence of infection among children who were contacts of other cases around their own age.