Open AccessA preliminary study on contact tracing & transmission chain in a cluster of 17 cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection in Basti, Uttar Pradesh, India
Author(s) -
Rajni Kant,
Kamran Zaman,
Prem Shankar,
Rajaram Yadav
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of medical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 87
ISSN - 0971-5916
DOI - 10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_2914_20
Subject(s) - contact tracing , medicine , asymptomatic , uttar pradesh , index case , transmission (telecommunications) , cluster (spacecraft) , quarantine , coronavirus , north india , covid-19 , asymptomatic carrier , outbreak , demography , pediatrics , disease , veterinary medicine , virology , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , ethnology , socioeconomics , sociology , computer science , electrical engineering , history , programming language , engineering
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has spread rapidly, causing unprecedented case fatalities across the world. The first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 and also the first death associated with the disease in the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh (UP) was reported from Basti on March 31, 2020. The present study describes a cluster of 17 cases including one death of confirmed COVID-19 in Basti, UP, India.