COVID-19 in New Zealand and the impact of the national response: a descriptive epidemiological study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In early 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, New Zealand implemented graduated, risk-informed national COVID-19 suppression measures aimed at disease elimination. We investigated their impacts on the epidemiology of the first wave of COVID-19 in the country and response performance measures.

Methods

We did a descriptive epidemiological study of all laboratory-confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and all patients tested for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in New Zealand from Feb 2 to May 13, 2020, after which time community transmission ceased. We extracted data from the national notifiable diseases database and the national SARS-CoV-2 test results repository. Demographic features and disease outcomes, transmission patterns (source

SUBMITTER: Jefferies S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7553903 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature