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April 11, 2020 17: 22: 32
You may have heard the term “community transmission” being used in coronavirus news stories and updates from authorities.
It is used to describe the situation where a person is infected by the virus but they have not been overseas recently or been in recent contact with other confirmed cases.
The term basically means authorities are unable to trace the source of the infection.
“What that means is members of the community who are infected could be circulating that haven’t been tagged as infected and that’s where it becomes really, really problematic,” University of Queensland virologist Kirsty Short said of community transmission.
“That’s when it means we’ve missed cases of the virus and have t