Work-related COVID-19 transmission in six Asian countries/areas: A follow-up study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

There is limited evidence of work-related transmission in the emerging coronaviral pandemic. We aimed to identify high-risk occupations for early coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) local transmission.

Methods

In this observational study, we extracted confirmed COVID-19 cases from governmental investigation reports in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. We followed each country/area for 40 days after its first locally transmitted case, and excluded all imported cases. We defined a possible work-related case as a worker with evidence of close contact with another confirmed case due to work, or an unknown contact history but likely to be infected in the working environment (e.g. an airport taxi driver). We calculated the case number for each o

SUBMITTER: Lan FY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7237000 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature