What's a coronavirus super spreader?

NEW DELHI: A resident of the Dehpali village in Paliganj, nearly 50 km from Patna, who worked as a software engineer in Gurugram, returned to his village on May 12 to get married. A total of 369 people took part in the wedding. Two days after the marriage on June 15, the bridegroom died. A health department official said 79 persons, who attended the wedding event together on Monday were found corona-infected. Another 24 persons have also been found infected by contact tracing.
The authorities termed the wedding one of the worst cases of super spreaders in the state.
A super spreader is a person who is more likely to infect others, compared with a typical infected person.
In case of coronavirus, a normal Covid-19 patient is capable of infecting around 2 to 3 more people. However, certain individuals/groups infect scores of other people, these individuals/groups are called "super spreaders" by epidemologists.
However, till now, scientists have not been able to narrow down how many coronavirus infections someone needs to cause to qualify as super spreader.
Epidemologists rely on a variable known as R0, pronounced "R-naught", it represents the number of new infections estimated to stem from a single case.
In other words, if R0 is 2.5, then one person with the disease is expected to infect, on average, 2.5 others.
In case of coronavirus, scientists are yet to ascertain a fixed value to R0, basic reproductive number. Though it is believed to be between 2 and 3.
There is another theory that describes the spread of Covid-19 infection. According to studies, coronavirus infection adheres to 80/20 Pareto Principal — "80% of all consequences comes from just 20% of the possible causes".
When translated for novel coronavirus, it means 80% of new transmissions are caused by fewer than 20% of the carriers.
A vast majority of the infected people transmit the virus to very few people, or none at all, while a minority of the infected people are responsible for a bulk of the transmissions.
Scientists are not exactly sure on the exact reason an infected person becomes a super spreader.
Contact tracing, isolating, according to scientists, are the most potent ways of stalling a super spreader.
Since the outbreak of coronavirus in January, quite a few examples of super spreaders have been seen across the world.
In South Korea, "Patient 31" who had participated in a gathering in Daegu at the Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony is said to be responsible for the sudden rise in the number of Covid patients in the country in February.
In India, Baldev Singh, ignored the government guidelines on coronavirus on his return from Italy and Germany and infected at least 19 members of his family. The government had to quarantine as many as 40,000 residents in 20 villages to check the spread of pandemic.
In a fish processing plant in Ghana, a worker infected over 500 people in May.