Indirect Virus Transmission in Cluster of COVID-19 Cases, Wenzhou, China, 2020
Open Access
- 1 June 2020
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 26 (6), 1343-1345
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2606.200412
Abstract
To determine possible modes of virus transmission, we investigated a cluster of COVID-19 cases associated with a shopping mall in Wenzhou, China. Data indicated that indirect transmission of the causative virus occurred, perhaps resulting from virus contamination of common objects, virus aerosolization in a confined space, or spread from asymptomatic infected persons.Keywords
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