New Study suggests Kids can carry coronavirus in respiratory tract for weeks.

According to a publication by CNN, On Friday, Children can carry the dreadful corona virus in their noses and throats for weeks without showing any symptoms, which might explain how the virus can spread silently, according to researchers in South Korea.

“In this case series study, inapparent infections in children may have been associated with silent COVID-19 transmission in the community,” the researchers wrote in a new study.

The new study provides information which can be used by pubic health officials when considering the spread of the virus in schools, according to DeBiasi and Delaney.

“A surveillance strategy that tests only symptomatic children will fail to identify children who are silently shedding virus while moving about their community and schools,” they wrote. “In regions where use of face masks is not widely accepted or used by the general public, asymptomatic carriers may serve as an important reservoir that may facilitate silent spread through a community.”

The presence of the virus genetic material in swabs “need not equate with transmission, particularly in people who do not have important symptoms such as cough and sneeze,” Calum Semple, professor in child health and outbreak medicine at the University of Liverpool who was not involved in the study, said in a written statement on Friday.

“Without data and transparency, science and medical professionals are hampered, and families are harmed as we lack information that helps us understand how easily this virus can be transmitted to others and how to stop it.

With this latest discovery, Parents and Guidians may have to take extra caution and avoid all forms of carelessness which could in turn expose kids unnecessarily to the dreadful Virus..