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