Investigation of a COVID-19 cluster involving vertical transmission in a residential building, Taiwan, 2021

oleh: Hsin-Yi Wei, Cheng-Ping Chang, Ming-Tsan Liu, Jung-Jung Mu, Chia-ping Su

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Elsevier 2024-02-01

Deskripsi

We investigated a COVID-19 cluster involved seven case-patients lived in a high-rise building in September 2021. We used a simplified tracer-gas experiment and virus sequencing to establish the link between case-patients. Vertical transmission among vertically aligned apartments on different floors in a building was the most likely route of transmission.