It is difficult to believe how easily a corona virus can infect several people, but there are a number of cases that confirm this.
Medical experts believe that in one such incident, a woman unknowingly infected at least 71 other people with the corona virus, code 19, using only one lift.
According to a report, the woman returned to her home in the Chinese province of Heilongjiang on March 19 after new cases of code 19 had not been reported in her area for eight days.
The medical journal Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases published the details of the case, according to which the woman (name withheld) did not show any symptoms of the disease but also tested negative for the virus, but confined herself to home. Had done
The report said that he had used the elevator alone in his apartment building, after which a neighbor on the ground floor used the elevator.
On March 29, the neighbor’s mother and mother’s boyfriend came to visit her at the flat and also attended a group party.
Then, on April 2, one of the group suffered a stroke and was taken to the hospital, but at that time there was no clear connection with the woman from the United States, nor was the patient tested for the corona virus.
Medical experts later discovered that a woman from the United States had infected her building’s elevator with a virus and contracted the virus while using a neighbor’s elevator downstairs.
The neighbor later infected his mother and boyfriend with code 19 and then spread the disease to the paralyzed man and his two sons.
The paralyzed patient was transferred to another hospital on April 6, but in the meantime, the patient and his sons infected 28 people at the first hospital, including five nurses and a doctor, and transmitted the virus to another 20 people at the second hospital.
All of these cases came to light when the downstairs neighbor’s mother’s boyfriend showed signs of code 19 and the test diagnosed code 19.
When researchers found out that a woman had recently come to the building from abroad, she was tested again and this time antibodies were discovered, indicating that she had been a victim of code 19 before. ۔
“We believe that this woman was an asymptomatic case of code 19, from which the virus that came out contaminated the surface of the elevator and the victim fell on the ground floor neighbor and then the chain spread further,” the Chinese researchers said.
“The results show that even an asymptomatic patient with code 19 can spread the virus on a large scale,” he said