This is an air-conditioned restaurant of five floors, without windows, located in Guangzhou, the new name of Canton, in the south of China. We are in the heart of the triangle of the Pearl river megalopolis of 70 million inhabitants. On January 24, 2020, twenty people attable to the 3rd floor. Among them, a sexagenarian is already infected with the coronavirus, as the will reveal a PCR test two days later. February 5, 9 other people who dined that day at the same place are diagnosed positive. They were, however, divided on three different tables, spaced...

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