Skip to main content
. 2020 Apr 10;81(1):179–182. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.03.040

Table 3.

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 among close contacts in households.

Number of contacts in household Number of households Positive contacts Negative contacts Untested contacts
1 39/78(50%) 15/39(38%) 12/39(31%) 12/39(31%)
2 15/78(19%) 15/30(50%) 6/30(20%) 9/30(30%)
3 12/78(15%) 11/36(31%) 13/36(36%) 12/36(33%)
4 11/78(14%) 5/44(11%) 24/44(55%) 15/44(34%)
5 0 0 0 0
6 1/78(1%) 1/6(17%) 2/6(33%) 3/6(50%)

Legend: 85 households were enrolled and 7 households with no close contacts were not excluded from analysis in this table. Data are n/N (%), where N is the total number of households or close contacts with available data. SARS-CoV-2, 2019 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.