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Community quarantine strategy against coronavirus disease 2019 in Anhui: an evaluation based on trauma center patients
(2020-04-06)[Abstract]. Objective: The objective of our study was to introduce community quarantine strategy against coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) in Anhui and evaluate the effectiveness of community quarantine based on trauma ... -
The role of asymptomatic class, quarantine and isolation in the transmission of COVID-19
(2020-06-05)We formulate a deterministic epidemic model for the spread of Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19). We have included asymptomatic, quarantine and isolation compartments in the model, as studies have stressed upon the importance ... -
Contact tracing strategies for COVID-19 containment with attenuated physical distancing
(2020-05-08)Contact tracing has been recommended as a critical component of containment strategies for COVID-19. We used a simple epidemic model to evaluate how contact tracing might enable partial relaxation of current physical ... -
How and when to end the COVID-19 lockdown: an optimisation approach
(2020-05-02)Countries around the world are in a state of lockdown to help limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2. However, as the number of new daily confirmed cases begins to decrease, governments must decide how to release their populations ... -
Estimates of the ongoing need for social distancing and control measures post-"lockdown" from trajectories of COVID-19 cases and mortality
(2020-05-05)By 29th April 2020, COVID-19 had caused more than 3 million cases across more than 200 countries. And most countries with significant outbreaks had introduced social distancing or "lockdown" measures to reduce viral ... -
Optimal strategies for quarantine stopping in France. General expected patterns of strategies focusing on contact between age groups
(2020-04-24)Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries have implemented a complete lock-down of their population that may not be sustainable for long. To identify the best strategy to replace this full lock-down, sophisticated models ... -
National Response to COVID-19 in the Republic of Korea and Lessons Learned for Other Countries
(2020-04-29)In the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) had the second highest number of cases globally yet was able to dramatically lower the incidence of new cases and sustain a low mortality ... -
Evidence from Cochrane systematic reviews for controlling the dissemination of COVID-19 infection. A narrative review
(2020-07)BACKGROUND: COVID-19 infection has high transmissibility and several measures have been adopted for controlling its dissemination. OBJECTIVE: To identify and summarize the evidence from Cochrane systematic reviews (SRs) ... -
Quarantine alone or in combination with other public health measures to control COVID‐19: a rapid review
(2020-09-14)Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is a rapidly emerging disease classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). To support the WHO with their recommendations on quarantine, we conducted a ...