An infectious disease expert has said the child infected with coronavirus in Sydney poses less risk than an adult.
The child who went to St Charles’ Primary School in Waverly, near Bondi was diagnosed with the virus and it’s not yet known how they caught it.
Infectious diseases expert Professor Peter Collignon told Today: “Well, it is a risk and obviously other people can get infected but on the bright side, children under the age of 10 are much less of a risk than their parents,” he said.
“They get less infections and they disseminate less.
“There is good cooperation, I’m sure, with that school and with all the people to get tested and the real crunch here is we need people to isolate when they are suppose to isolate.”