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Case Reports
. 2020 Jun 19:148:e120.
doi: 10.1017/S0950268820001326.

Possible indirect transmission of COVID-19 at a squash court, Slovenia, March 2020: case report

A Brlek  1 , Š Vidovič  1 , S Vuzem  1 , K Turk  1 , Z Simonović  1
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Possible indirect transmission of COVID-19 at a squash court, Slovenia, March 2020: case report

A Brlek et al. Epidemiol Infect. .

Abstract

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic, there is an ongoing debate and research regarding the possible ways of virus transmission. We conducted an epidemiological investigation which revealed a cluster of five COVID-19 cases, linked to playing squash at a sports venue in Maribor, Slovenia. Acquired data raises possibility that the transmission occurred indirectly through contaminated objects in changing room or squash hall or via aerosolisation in squash hall.

Keywords: COVID-19; epidemiology; outbreaks; pandemic; transmission.

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Fig. 1.
Chronology of onset and diagnosis date of five COVID-19 cases linked to playing squash at a sports venue, Maribor, Slovenia, March 2020.
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