Quarantine and testing strategies to ameliorate transmission due to travel during the COVID-19 pandemic: a modelling study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Numerous countries have imposed strict travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, contributing to a large socioeconomic burden. The long quarantines that have been applied to contacts of cases may be excessive for travel policy.

Methods

We developed an approach to evaluate imminent countrywide COVID-19 infections after 0-14-day quarantine and testing. We identified the minimum travel quarantine duration such that the infection rate within the destination country did not increase compared to a travel ban, defining this minimum quarantine as "sufficient."

Findings

We present a generalised analytical framework and a specific case study of the epidemic situation on November 21, 2021, for application to 26 European countries. For most origin-destination c

SUBMITTER: Wells CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8743228 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature