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Study tells ‘remarkable story’ about COVID-19’s deadly rampage through a South African hospital
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A coronavirus outbreak at St. Augustine's hospital in Durban, South Africa caused 119 infections and 15 deaths. By Linda NordlingScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.On 9 March, a patient who had recently traveled to Europe and had symptoms of COVID-19 visited the emergency department of St Augustine’s, a private hospital in Durban, South Africa.
Eight weeks later, 39 patients and 80 staff linked to the hospital had been infected, and 15 patients had died—fully half the death toll in KwaZulu-Natal province at that time.Now, scientists at the University of KwaZulu-Natal have published a detailed reconstruction of how the virus spread from ward to ward and between patients, doctors, and nurses, based on floor
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