No SARS-CoV-2 carriage observed in children attending daycare centers during the first weeks of the epidemic in Belgium

To gain knowledge about the role of young children attending daycare in the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic, a random sample of children (n=84) aged between 6 and 30 months attending daycare in Belgium was studied shortly after the start of the epidemic (February 29 th ) and before the lockdown (March 18 th ). No asymptomatic carriage of SARS-CoV-2 was detected, whereas common cold symptoms were common (51.2%).