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Editor, Senior Moderator
J Infect Public Health
. 2021 Jul 13;14(9):1151-1154.
doi: 10.1016/j.jiph.2021.07.003. Online ahead of print.
Successful control of COVID-19 outbreak through tracing, testing, and isolation: Lessons learned from the outbreak control efforts made in a metropolitan city of South Korea
Seung-Ji Kang[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Sooyeon Kim[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Kyung-Hwa Park[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Sook In Jung[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Min-Ho Shin[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Sun-Seog Kweon[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Hyang Park[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Seong-Woo Choi[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Eungyu Lee[SUP] 7 [/SUP], So Yeon Ryu[SUP] 8 [/SUP]
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Abstract
The first surge of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases began on June 27, 2020 in Gwangju metropolitan city, located in the southwestern part of South Korea, with a population of 1,501,000. Local governments and the Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention immediately started an epidemiologic investigation and traced the contacts of patients using a wide variety of data sources, including location data from mobile devices, credit card transaction, and closed-circuit television footage. Until July 16, 2020, 138 community transmission cases and 10 infection clusters were identified across the city. Through contact tracing, epidemiologic relatedness was found in 136 (98.6%) of 138 cases. Our investigation showed how the extensive and meticulous contact tracing suppressed COVID-19 outbreak in a populated city.
Keywords: COVID-19; Contact tracing; Isolation; SARS-CoV-2; Testing.
. 2021 Jul 13;14(9):1151-1154.
doi: 10.1016/j.jiph.2021.07.003. Online ahead of print.
Successful control of COVID-19 outbreak through tracing, testing, and isolation: Lessons learned from the outbreak control efforts made in a metropolitan city of South Korea
Seung-Ji Kang[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Sooyeon Kim[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Kyung-Hwa Park[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Sook In Jung[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Min-Ho Shin[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Sun-Seog Kweon[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Hyang Park[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Seong-Woo Choi[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Eungyu Lee[SUP] 7 [/SUP], So Yeon Ryu[SUP] 8 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 34364306
- DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2021.07.003
Abstract
The first surge of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases began on June 27, 2020 in Gwangju metropolitan city, located in the southwestern part of South Korea, with a population of 1,501,000. Local governments and the Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention immediately started an epidemiologic investigation and traced the contacts of patients using a wide variety of data sources, including location data from mobile devices, credit card transaction, and closed-circuit television footage. Until July 16, 2020, 138 community transmission cases and 10 infection clusters were identified across the city. Through contact tracing, epidemiologic relatedness was found in 136 (98.6%) of 138 cases. Our investigation showed how the extensive and meticulous contact tracing suppressed COVID-19 outbreak in a populated city.
Keywords: COVID-19; Contact tracing; Isolation; SARS-CoV-2; Testing.