British-Vietnamese flights are now "super-spreaders", passengers infected with the virus on the plane "1 pass 15"
[Global Times reporter Wang Xiaoxiong] The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently published a research report in its journal "Emerging Infectious Diseases", stating that on a flight from the UK to Vietnam, a patient infected with the new crown virus infected 15 people.
This "super communicator" is 27 years old and a business woman from Vietnam.
Before taking the flight on March 1 this year, she had already experienced symptoms such as sore throat and cough.
Four days later, she was tested positive for the new coronavirus.
Through close contact tracking, health officials confirmed that the woman had infected 14 passengers and 1 crew member on the same plane.
At that time, there were 217 people on this flight of Vietnam Airlines, and passengers were not required to wear masks in the airport or in the cabin.
The research report stated that the risk of infection of the new crown virus in the cabin during a long flight is real, and it may lead to large-scale clusters of cases, even in the business class with a large seat spacing (in the text, the infected Vietnam The business woman was in business class at the time).
Therefore, protective measures must be taken during long-distance flights.