Open AccessPrimary to tertiary COVID-19 transmission in a hospital – A cluster outbreak analysis
Author(s) -
M Aishwarya,
Mahendra Singh,
Prasan Kumar Panda
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2104_20
Subject(s) - outbreak , medicine , transmission (telecommunications) , pandemic , covid-19 , cluster (spacecraft) , tertiary care , attack rate , transmissibility (structural dynamics) , tertiary level , coronavirus , transmission rate , pediatrics , emergency medicine , virology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , telecommunications , physics , mathematics education , mathematics , vibration isolation , quantum mechanics , computer science , vibration , programming language
The recent pandemic of SARS COV-2, a novel coronavirus requires research into understanding of its transmission dynamics and clinical presentations to help in understanding the spread of the disease, how to prevent it not only locally but also for national policy formulations. In this study, we described the transmission dynamics and clinical presentations of a cluster outbreak of SARS COV-2 in a tertiary level hospital. We also calculated the secondary attack rate for the primary, secondary, and tertiary transmissions. We conclude that symptomatic COVID-19 are primary and secondary contacts rather than tertiary contacts, hence, former to be quarantined. However, tertiary transmission is causing more COVID-19 compared to other transmissions in a hospital outbreak without further transmissibility. And overall secondary attack rate is very low in a hospital outbreak.