COVID-19 preventive measures showing an unintended decline in infectious diseases in Taiwan
Author(s) -
Cooper J. Galvin,
Yu-Chuan Li,
Shwetambara Malwade,
Shabbir Syed-Abdul
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1878-3511
pISSN - 1201-9712
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.06.062
Subject(s) - outbreak , covid-19 , social distance , environmental health , hand sanitizer , medicine , government (linguistics) , public health , pandemic , geography , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , nursing , pathology , linguistics , philosophy
Many communicable diseases may have contact, airborne, and/or droplets transmission. Following the COVID-19 outbreak, Taiwan government implemented the use of masks and sanitizer and other prevention measures, like social distancing for prevention. This public response may have likely contributed significantly to the decline in the outbreak of other infectious diseases.
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