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Scientists report coronavirus case linked to dead body

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Scientists in Thailand claim to have identified the first case of someone dying from the coronavirus after catching it from a dead body.

"This is the first report on COVID-19 infection and death among medical personnel in a forensic medicine unit," according to a letter written by Won Sriwijitalai of the RVT Medical Center, Thailand, and Viroj Wiwanitkit of Hainan Medical University, China.

"At present, there is no data on the exact number of COVID-19 contaminated corpses since it is not a routine practice to examine for COVID-19 in dead bodies in Thailand," the authors wrote.

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