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Editor, Senior Moderator
BMC Public Health
. 2021 Apr 29;21(1):825.
doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-10837-2.
Does lock-down of Wuhan effectively restrict early geographic spread of novel coronavirus epidemic during chunyun in China? A spatial model study
Yi Hu[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 1 [/SUP], Lingcai Kong[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 2 [/SUP], Tong Yao[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Xinda Chen[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Wei Du[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Background: Prior to Wuhan lock-down in 2020, chunyun, the largest population mobility on this planet, had begun. We quantified impact of Wuhan lock-down on COVID-19 spread during chunyun across the nation.
Methods: During the period of January 1 to February 9, 2020, a total of 40,278 confirmed COVID-19 cases from 319 municipalities in mainland China were considered in this study. The cross-coupled meta-population methods were employed using between-city Baidu migration index. We modelled four scenarios of geographic spread of COVID-19 including the presence of both chunyun and lock-down (baseline); lock-down without chunyun (scenario 1); chunyun without lock-down (scenario 2); and the absence of both chunyun and lock-down (scenario 3).
Results: Compared with the baseline, scenario 1 resulted in 3.84% less cases by February 9 while scenario 2 and 3 resulted in 20.22 and 32.46% more cases by February 9. The geographic distribution of cases revealed that chunyun facilitated the COVID-19 spread in the majority but not all cities, and the effectiveness of Wuhan lock-down was offset by chunyun. Impacts of Wuhan lock-down during chunyun on the COVID-19 spread demonstrated heterogenetic geographic patterns.
Conclusion: Our results strongly supported the travel restriction as one of the effective responses and highlighted the importance of developing area-specific rather than universal countermeasures.
Keywords: COVID-19; China; Chunyun; Coronavirus; Geographic spread; Lock-down.
. 2021 Apr 29;21(1):825.
doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-10837-2.
Does lock-down of Wuhan effectively restrict early geographic spread of novel coronavirus epidemic during chunyun in China? A spatial model study
Yi Hu[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 1 [/SUP], Lingcai Kong[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 2 [/SUP], Tong Yao[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Xinda Chen[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Wei Du[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 33926395
- DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-10837-2
Abstract
Background: Prior to Wuhan lock-down in 2020, chunyun, the largest population mobility on this planet, had begun. We quantified impact of Wuhan lock-down on COVID-19 spread during chunyun across the nation.
Methods: During the period of January 1 to February 9, 2020, a total of 40,278 confirmed COVID-19 cases from 319 municipalities in mainland China were considered in this study. The cross-coupled meta-population methods were employed using between-city Baidu migration index. We modelled four scenarios of geographic spread of COVID-19 including the presence of both chunyun and lock-down (baseline); lock-down without chunyun (scenario 1); chunyun without lock-down (scenario 2); and the absence of both chunyun and lock-down (scenario 3).
Results: Compared with the baseline, scenario 1 resulted in 3.84% less cases by February 9 while scenario 2 and 3 resulted in 20.22 and 32.46% more cases by February 9. The geographic distribution of cases revealed that chunyun facilitated the COVID-19 spread in the majority but not all cities, and the effectiveness of Wuhan lock-down was offset by chunyun. Impacts of Wuhan lock-down during chunyun on the COVID-19 spread demonstrated heterogenetic geographic patterns.
Conclusion: Our results strongly supported the travel restriction as one of the effective responses and highlighted the importance of developing area-specific rather than universal countermeasures.
Keywords: COVID-19; China; Chunyun; Coronavirus; Geographic spread; Lock-down.