Exit strategies: optimising feasible surveillance for detection, elimination, and ongoing prevention of COVID-19 community transmission.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Following implementation of strong containment measures, several countries and regions have low detectable community transmission of COVID-19. We developed an efficient, rapid, and scalable surveillance strategy to detect remaining COVID-19 community cases through exhaustive identification of every active transmission chain. We identified measures to enable early detection and effective management of any reintroduction of transmission once containment measures are lifted to ensure strong containment measures do not require reinstatement.

Methods

We compared efficiency and sensitivity to detect community transmission chains through testing of the following: hospital cases; fever, cough and/or ARI testing at community/primary care; and asymptomatic testing; using su

SUBMITTER: Lokuge K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7887417 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature