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Early transmission patterns of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in travellers from Wuhan to Thailand, January 2020
- Pilailuk Okada1 , Rome Buathong2 , Siripaporn Phuygun1 , Thanutsapa Thanadachakul1 , Sittiporn Parnmen1 , Warawan Wongboot1 , Sunthareeya Waicharoen1 , Supaporn Wacharapluesadee3 , Sumonmal Uttayamakul2 , Apichart Vachiraphan2 , Malinee Chittaganpitch1 , Nanthawan Mekha1 , Noppavan Janejai1 , Sopon Iamsirithaworn2 , Raphael TC Lee4 , Sebastian Maurer-Stroh4,5
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 Department of Medical Sciences, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand 2 Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand 3 Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases - Health Science Centre, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand 4 Bioinformatics Institute, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore 5 Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, SingaporePilailuk Okadapilailuk.o dmsc.mail.go.th
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Citation style for this article: Okada Pilailuk, Buathong Rome, Phuygun Siripaporn, Thanadachakul Thanutsapa, Parnmen Sittiporn, Wongboot Warawan, Waicharoen Sunthareeya, Wacharapluesadee Supaporn, Uttayamakul Sumonmal, Vachiraphan Apichart, Chittaganpitch Malinee, Mekha Nanthawan, Janejai Noppavan, Iamsirithaworn Sopon, Lee Raphael TC, Maurer-Stroh Sebastian. Early transmission patterns of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in travellers from Wuhan to Thailand, January 2020. Euro Surveill. 2020;25(8):pii=2000097. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.8.2000097 Received: 06 Feb 2020; Accepted: 27 Feb 2020
Abstract
We report two cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in travellers from Wuhan, China to Thailand. Both were independent introductions on separate flights, discovered with thermoscanners and confirmed with RT-PCR and genome sequencing. Both cases do not seem directly linked to the Huanan Seafood Market in Hubei but the viral genomes are identical to four other sequences from Wuhan, suggesting early spread within the city already in the first week of January.
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