Thursday, May 07, 2020

THE SALTSHAKER

Germany traced its first human-to-human transmission of Covid-19 through a saltshaker.

A company called Webasto based in Stockdorf, a town South West of Munich, was one of the first to suffer a cluster of Covid-19 cases. An employee based in Shanghai brought it over from China. Although that employee was based in Shanghai, her parents lived in Wuhan, and they visited her just before she travelled to Stockdorf. She said she felt very ill while in Germany. Upon her return to China she was tested and found to be positive with Covid-19. So her parents were also tested and they were also found to be infected with Covid-19.

While in Germany she passed on Covid-19 to several employees at Webasto, and the virus was even transmitted through passing on a saltshaker.

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