Strategies at points of entry to reduce importation risk of COVID-19 cases and reopen travel.

ABSTRACT: With more countries exiting lockdown, public health safety requires screening measures at international travel entry points that can prevent the reintroduction or importation of the severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus-2. Here, we estimate the number of cases captured, quarantining days averted and secondary cases expected to occur with screening interventions. To estimate active case exportation risk from 153 countries with recorded coronavirus disease-2019 cases and deaths, we created a simple data-driven framework to calculate the number of infectious and upcoming infectious individuals out of 100 000 000 potential travellers from each country, and assessed six importation risk reduction strategies; Strategy 1 (S1) has no screening on entry, S2 tests all travellers and

SUBMITTER: Dickens BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7499710 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature