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Person caught COVID-19 after 5 minutes in restaurant 20 feet from infected patron, researchers say
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LOS ANGELES - It took only five minutes for one South Korean restaurant patron to become infected with the novel coronavirus from another person at the restaurant sitting more than 20 feet away, researchers say.
Through South Korean officials’ meticulous contact tracing efforts, epidemiologists found evidence to suggest that the widely accepted social distancing rule of 6 feet of distance might not be enough to keep others safe from contracting the deadly coronavirus.
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Indoor dining could be the fastest-growing source of COVID-19 spread, according to a new study.
Researchers published a study in the Korean Academy of Medical Sciences that was investigating a case in South Korea when a student became infected with the virus in minutes from a person approximately 20 feet away while dining indoors.
The discovery came after contact tracers were initially unable to figure out how the student contracted COVID-19 before tracking it back to her brief stop at a local restaurant.
According to the study, the student hadn’t traveled outside his region before spreading the virus, but through the use of GPS data, it showed that she had been in the same restaurant for a few minutes with another woman who had contracted COVID-19.
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