Open AccessTravel-associated outbreak of COVID-19 in a departmental store, Wenzhou, China
Author(s) -
Yiwei Zhou,
Fanglv Xiang,
Ni ChaoRong,
Xiaoming Zhang,
Hui Xie,
Haishen Zhu,
Zhou Zhi
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of infection in developing countries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2036-6590
pISSN - 1972-2680
DOI - 10.3855/jidc.15670
Subject(s) - outbreak , transmission (telecommunications) , covid-19 , china , pandemic , asymptomatic , epidemiology , cluster (spacecraft) , medicine , asymptomatic carrier , virology , disease , veterinary medicine , environmental health , geography , infectious disease (medical specialty) , telecommunications , programming language , archaeology , computer science
A local outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly evolved into a global pandemic and the number of cases and deaths has increased exponentially. In this study, we report a COVID-19 outbreak that occurred in a departmental store, between January and February 2020, in Wenzhou, China and investigated the reasons for the outbreak.