Of all the first reported cases, 22% of infected persons had been to China while 11% had travelled from Iran. FMTNews Italy China
PARIS: People who had visited Italy accounted for more than a quarter of the first reported cases of the new coronavirus outside China, according to a new study that found most initial infections were linked to just three countries.
They found that 27% of all the first reported cases were people with travel links to Italy, while 22% had been to China and 11% had travelled from Iran. The study, which was published in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases this week, found that overall three-quarters of the first cases in affected countries were linked to recent travel.Researchers examined online reports from health ministries and other government agency websites, social media feeds, and press releases for information on first cases and early outbreaks.
Three-quarters of these were attributed to relatively limited household transmission, with an average of 2.6 cases per cluster, the report said.
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