Estimating the prevalence and risk of COVID-19 among international travelers and evacuees of Wuhan through modeling and case reports.

ABSTRACT: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) started in Wuhan, China and has spread through other provinces and countries through infected travelers. On January 23rd, 2020, China issued a quarantine and travel ban on Wuhan because travelers from Wuhan were thought to account for the majority of exported COVID-19 cases to other countries. Additionally, countries evacuated their citizens from Wuhan after institution of the travel ban. Together, these two populations account for the vast majority of the "total cases with travel history to China" as designated by the World Health Organization (WHO). The current study aims to assess the prevalence and risk of COVID-19 among international travelers and evacuees of Wuhan. We first used case reports from Japan, Singapore, and Korea to investigate the date

SUBMITTER: Luo G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7310725 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature