Reduced dengue incidence during the COVID-19 movement restrictions in Sri Lanka from March 2020 to April 2021.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dengue is the major mosquito-borne disease in Sri Lanka. After its first detection in January 2020, COVID-19 has become the major health issue in Sri Lanka. The impact of public health measures, notably restrictions on movement of people to curb COVID-19 transmission, on the incidence of dengue during the period March 2020 to April 2021 was investigated.

Methods

The incidence of dengue and COVID-19, rainfall and the public movement restrictions implemented to contain COVID-19 transmission were obtained from Sri Lanka government sources. A Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) model was used to predict the monthly dengue incidence from March 2020 to April 2021 for each of the country's 25 districts based on five years of pre-pandemic data, and

SUBMITTER: Surendran SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8866919 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature