Entry and initial spread of COVID-19 in India: Epidemiological analysis of media surveillance data, India, 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

India reported first laboratory-confirmed case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on 30 January from Kerala. Media surveillance is useful to capture unstructured information about outbreaks. We established media surveillance and described the characteristics of the COVID-19 cases, clusters, deaths by time, place, and person during January-March 2020 in India.

Methods

The media surveillance team of ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology abstracted data from public domains of India's Central and State health ministries, online news and social media platforms for the period of January 31 to March 26, 2020. We collected data on person (socio-demographics, circumstances of travel/contact, clinical and laboratory), time (date/period of reported exposures; laborator

SUBMITTER: Jahan N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7647904 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature