Open AccessUse of public data to describe COVID-19 contact tracing in Hubei Province and non-Hubei provinces in China between 20 January and 29 February 2020
Author(s) -
Emilio Dirlikov,
Suizan Zhou,
Lifeng Han,
Zhijun Li,
Hao Lü,
Alexander J. Millman,
Barbara J. Marston
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
western pacific surveillance response journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2094-7313
pISSN - 2094-7321
DOI - 10.5365/wpsar.2021.12.3.808
Subject(s) - contact tracing , china , covid-19 , epidemiology , public health , geography , demography , environmental health , medicine , quarantine , socioeconomics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , nursing , archaeology , pathology , sociology
Contact tracing has been used in China and several other countries in the WHO Western Pacific Region as part of the COVID-19 response. We describe COVID-19 cases and the number of contacts traced and quarantined per case as part of COVID-19 emergency public health response activities in China.