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Clustering of coronavirus COVID-19 in jails, church, ship

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Dr KK Aggarwal    21 February 2020

When we talk about coronavirus spreading in clusters, the largest cluster was Wuhan itself where over five crore people were locked down, ending up with over 2000 deaths.

The second largest lockdown was in Japanese Diamond Princess ship where over 3000 patients were locked up and 21% (634) of them developed COVID-19 virus infection.

The third example is the cult church in South Korea where one lady infected with the virus spread it to over 30 people attending the church and she also infected multiple people in a hospital where she was treated and one person later died.

The Shandong province in China reported 207 cases of the new coronavirus in Rencheng prison as of February 20. A jail in the Zhejiang province has reported 34 infections, all of them inmates. A jail will behave like a ship and end up with 21% getting infected.

One should not do public functions in today’s date in highly COVID-19 affected countries where even one person can become a super-spreader and infect hundreds of others.

Such clusters can also surface when the schools and colleges open in China or public functions start in various parts of affected areas.

Dr KK Aggarwal

President CMAAO, HCFI and Past National President IMA

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