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Monday, April 20, 2020

Business Insider article (14 April 2020) - The first case of someone dying after catching COVID-19 from a dead body was a forensic worker in Thailand, scientists say

Title:
The first case of someone dying after catching COVID-19 from a dead body was a forensic worker in Thailand, scientists say

Author:
Bill Bostock

Published:
Busienss Insider, 14 April 2020

From the article:
"Scientists in Thailand said they identified the first instance of somebody dying from COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, after catching it from a dead body."

To read this article:
https://www.businessinsider.com/first-death-coronavirus-healthcare-caught-from-dead-body-thailand-2020-4?IR=T

To see the original Letter to the Editor of the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, volume 72 (2020), titled COVID-19 in forensic medicine unit personnel: observation from Thailand:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1752928X20300718