The recent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was firstly reported on December 2019 in Wuhan, China. Despite the classical respiratory symptoms, some case studies have reported gastrointestinal symptoms and the presence of SARS-CoV-2 (RNA or live virus) in feces of patients diagnosed with COVID-19.1,2 In this sense, the present Journal recently published an article that touches on this issue. Li et al.3 reported a mild SARS-CoV-2 infection in an 8-month-8-day-old girl. Curiously, her rectal swabs remained positive for eight days, whereas her nasopharyngeal swabs were persistently negative by real-time reverse transcription PCR (RT–PCR). In a similar way, other study reported that among 10 children infected with SARS-CoV-2, eight children persistently tested positive on rectal swabs even after nasopharyngeal RT-PCR testing be negative.4 Therefore, the present case report published in this Journal have corroborated significantly with previous findings from the current literature: (i) rectal swabs may be used to confirm diagnosis of COVID-19, even when nasopharyngeal testing is negative; (ii) another possible route of transmission might be fecal–oral; (iii) mild and asymptomatic cases, especially in children, are potential sources of fecal–oral transmission.