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Sat Mar 28, 2020, 07:15 AM Mar 2020

A 'super spreader' in India may have given 40,000 people coronavirus

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-india-super-spreader-40000-people-20200327-da3wahp2jjf4fbc6hevtetq4oa-story.html

About 40,000 residents from 20 villages in northern India have been quarantined after an outbreak was traced to one man.

Officials in the state of Punjab learned that a 70-year-old died of coronavirus after returning from India and Germany and refusing to self-quarantine.


Baldev Singh visited a party for the Sikh festival of Hola Mohalla which attracts about 10,000 people a day for six days.

Nineteen of his relatives tested positive for coronavirus a week after he died.

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