Isolation, quarantine, social distancing and community containment: pivotal role for old-style public health measures in the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak | Zendy

Annelies WilderSmith | Zendy; David O. Freedman | Zendy

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Isolation, quarantine, social distancing and community containment: pivotal role for old-style public health measures in the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak

Author(s) -

Annelies WilderSmith,

David O. Freedman

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

journal of travel medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.985

H-Index - 59

eISSN - 1708-8305

pISSN - 1195-1982

DOI - 10.1093/jtm/taaa020

Subject(s) - quarantine , social distance , medicine , isolation (microbiology) , outbreak , covid-19 , public health , social isolation , coronavirus , environmental health , distancing , pandemic , virology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , nursing , psychiatry , pathology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology

Public health measures were decisive in controlling the SARS epidemic in 2003. Isolation is the separation of ill persons from non-infected persons. Quarantine is movement restriction, often with fever surveillance, of contacts when it is not evident whether they have been infected but are not yet symptomatic or have not been infected. Community containment includes measures that range from increasing social distancing to community-wide quarantine. Whether these measures will be sufficient to control 2019-nCoV depends on addressing some unanswered questions.

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