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Eurosurv. Three infection clusters related with potential pre-symptomatic transmission of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Shanghai, China, January to

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  • Three infection clusters related with potential pre-symptomatic transmission of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Shanghai, China, January to February 2020
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  • Xiaohuan Gong[SUP]1,2[/SUP], Wenjia Xiao[SUP]1,2[/SUP] , Yan Cui[SUP]2,3[/SUP] , Yuanping Wang[SUP]2,4[/SUP] , Dechuan Kong[SUP]1[/SUP] , Shenghua Mao[SUP]1[/SUP] , Yaxu Zheng[SUP]1[/SUP] , Lunhui Xiang[SUP]5[/SUP] , Lu Lu[SUP]6[/SUP] , Chenyan Jiang[SUP]1[/SUP] , Xiao Yu[SUP]1[/SUP] , Yiyi Zhu[SUP]1[/SUP] , Qiwen Fang[SUP]1[/SUP] , Hao Pan[SUP]7[/SUP] , Huanyu Wu[SUP]1[/SUP]
We report three clusters related with potential pre-symptomatic transmission of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) between January and February 2020 in Shanghai, China. Investigators interviewed suspected COVID-19 cases to collect epidemiological information, including demographic characteristics, illness onset, hospital visits, close contacts, activities’ trajectories between 14 days before illness onset and isolation, and exposure histories. Respiratory specimens of suspected cases were collected and tested for SARS-CoV-2 by real-time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) assay. The interval between the onset of illness in the primary case and the last contact of the secondary case with the primary case in our report was 1 to 7 days. In Cluster 1 (five cases), illness onset in the five secondary cases was 2 to 5 days after the last contact with the primary case. In Cluster 2 (five cases) and Cluster 3 (four cases), the illness onset in secondary cases occurred prior to or on the same day as the onset in the primary cases. The study provides empirical evidence for transmission of COVID-19 during the incubation period and indicates that pre-symptomatic person-to-person transmission can occur following sufficient exposure to confirmed COVID-19 cases. The potential pre-symptomatic person-to-person transmission puts forward higher requirements for prevention and control measures.

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https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.33.2000228
 
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