Nearly 120,000 people are infected by coronaviruses with our German neighbors, and approximately 2,600 have lost their lives in the context.
But we turn the clock back to the 20. January, had the virus not come to Germany.
Or rather: It did not in the least at that time.
in fact, it was at the time a woman around in southern Germany and was the one person who, as the first bar on the infection in the large country.
It all began in the company Webasto, which produces varmeapperater to cars, and is located in the southern town of Stockdorf.
Here is the company’s head office, and in the middle of January was a chinese woman from the Webastos office in Shanghai on a visit.
This writes Reuters, and TV 2.
During his stay at the German headquarters got the chinese woman feeling bad with symptoms, which would later be described as classic signs of corona virus: Sore muscles, pressure on the chest, discomfort and massive fatigue.
She blamed the jet lag, but today by the German researchers, it was this woman who was patient zero in the country where now more than 100,000 people are infected.
the Woman has parents in chinese Wuhan, where coronavirussen broke out, and they had been visiting her in Shanghai before she had packed a suitcase and set course for Germany.
During the woman’s visit Webasto large parts of the company infected with the virus, and now, scientists are able to map large parts of every year, through interviews and digital calendars.
First and foremost, they found out that the patient one, the first infected German citizen, was a man who the 20. January was a meeting with the chinese woman in a small conference room.
The chinese woman had also infected the patient two, three and four in the Webasto, but it becomes especially intriguing when we look at the patient five.
He was infected by the patient four, and it came to pass in the company’s canteen.
Patient four felt not sick and ate, therefore, as always, with his colleagues in the canteen, the 22. January, and at one point begged a colleague with him number of saltbøssen.
And the colleague was in the second-to-patient five in Germany, scientists have according to Reuters later concluded.
Through the saltbøssen smoke infection namely on to the coworker, and since it was so scattered throughout the company.
the Story from the Webasto is an example of how quickly infection can spread, but it is also an example of how, with a violent effort and vigilance can find a smittekæde and stop it.
The 27. January was the chinese woman namely tested positive in Shanghai, and with the same train Webastos director contact the German authorities and brought them the bad news.
Then put a large team of researchers to gennemtrevle the company, and quickly got to the track on every year in the company.
So quickly, that you got the local infection indæmmet and got a essential knowledge in relation to the work with coronavirussen.
“We learned that we carefully had to track smittekæderne to interrupt them,” says the German doctor Christian Wendtner to Reuters.
Just recently Germany has been praised for its work to test, find smittekæder and contain coronavirussen.
The German researchers ‘ study is yet to be judged by other scientists before it gets published.
