MUNICH: One January lunchtime in a car parts company, a worker turned to a colleague and asked to borrow the salt. As well as the saltshaker, in ...
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The company was thrust under a global microscope after it disclosed that one of its employees, a Chinese woman, caught the virus and brought it to Webasto headquarters.There, it was passed to colleagues - including, scientists would learn, a person lunching in the canteen with whom the Chinese patient had no contact.
"We learned that we must meticulously trace chains of infection in order to interrupt them," Clemens Wendtner, the doctor who treated the Munich patients, told Reuters. Christian Drosten, the top virologist at Berlin's Charite hospital, said Germany was helped by having a clear early cluster. While in Germany, she felt unusual chest and back aches and was tired for her whole stay. But she put the symptoms down to jet lag.
The company has not revealed her identity or that of others involved, saying anonymity has encouraged staff to co-operate in Germany's effort to contain the virus. By following all these links, they discovered that case #4 had been in contact several times with the Shanghai patient. Then case #4 sat back-to-back with a colleague in the canteen.
But experts say more deaths in Germany are inevitable."The death rate will rise," said Lothar Wieler, president of Germany's Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases. Germany's government is using the weeks gained by the Munich experience to double the number of intensive care beds from about 28,000.
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