Use of contact tracing, isolation, and mass testing to control transmission of covid-19 in China
Yibiao Zhou, Honglin Jiang, Quanyi Wang, Meixia Yang, Yue Chen, Qingwu Jiang
Abstract
<b>Qingwu Jiang and colleagues</b> discuss China’s experience of contact tracing, isolation, and quarantine of infected people and their contacts, and mass nucleic acid testing in the second phase of the covid-19 epidemic
Topics & Concepts
Contact tracingCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Isolation (microbiology)QuarantineSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakTransmission (telecommunications)VirologyChinaTracingComputer scienceMedicineBiologyGeographyOutbreakTelecommunicationsBioinformaticsInfectious disease (medical specialty)PathologyDiseaseArchaeologyOperating systemCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesSARS-CoV-2 detection and testingSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research