Enlarge / A passenger carrying protecting clothes amid the COVID-19 pandemic waits to board a home flight at Shanghai Pudong Worldwide Airport on January 3. (credit score: Getty | HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP)
Though China has largely deserted COVID-19 case reporting, proof of its large wave of an infection readily exhibits up in airports exterior its borders.
On a December 26 flight from the southeastern metropolis of Wenzhou to Milan, Italy, 42 p.c of the 149 passengers on board examined constructive for COVID-19 upon arrival, in response to a examine printed Thursday within the journal Eurosurveillance.
The Italian researchers behind the examine additionally checked out test-positivity charges of three different flights from jap cities in China to Italy, two to Milan and two to Rome, all on the finish of December. Collectively, 23 p.c of the passengers from the 4 flights (126 of 556 passengers) had been constructive for SARS-CoV-2. The opposite three flights had positivity charges of 19 p.c, 11 p.c, and 14 p.c.
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