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Nitong linggo, na kumpirma ang may 10 kaso ng infected sa Hongkong na ngayon ay umabot na sa halos 41,000 katao sa buong mundo at nasa 1,100 naman ang namatay.
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Ayon sa South China Morning Post, na isa sa mga sampung nag positibo ay nakibahagi pa sa traditional meal ng kanilang pamilya mga dalawang linggo ang nakalipas.Kaya nasa 36 na ang bilang ng mga infected sa Hongkong-tumaas ng halos 1/3 kumpara sa nakaraang bilang.
Noong Enero 26, 19 na miyembro ng Chinese Family ay nagtipon tipon sa Hongkong para mag share ng kanilang pagkain ng sabay-sabay bilang isang reunion.
Dalawa sa miyembro ng Pamilya ang nakapag traveled galing sa mainland China.
When the group sat down to eat at the Lento Party Room in Kwun Tong, according to South Morning China Post's reporting, everyone seemed well, or nearly so, with perhaps only mild symptoms of respiratory infection.
But after the dinner, several people started showing clearer signs of sickness.
By Sunday, a 22-year-old male in the family and his grandmother had both tested positive for coronavirus.
The same evening, seven other related guests at the dinner were diagnosed, too.
They included the original patient's parents, two of his aunts and three cousins, according to the South China Morning Post.
Upon returning to mainland China at the end of the month, one of the two visiting relatives was also diagnosed with coronavirus.
Such a consolidated cluster of infections underlined just how contagious coronavirus can be and emphasized the uphill battle Chinese health authorities face in tracking and controlling the outbreak.
'We’re facing major difficulties in isolating the suspected cases and tracing those who had close contact with the confirmed patients,' Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the communicable disease branch of the Center for Health Protection told the South China Morning Post.
When coronavirus was first identified, it seemed that everyone who contracted it had been to an open-air seafood and wild game market in Wuhan, in mainland China.
But soon it became clear that people were infecting one another - the virus was transmissible between humans.
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