Epidemiology of COVID-19 and effect of public health interventions, Chennai, India, March-October 2020: an analysis of COVID-19 surveillance system.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the public health strategies and their effect in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic from March to October 2020 in Chennai, India.

Setting

Chennai, a densely populated metropolitan city in Southern India, was one of the five cities which contributed to more than half of the COVID-19 cases in India from March to May 2020. A comprehensive community-centric public health strategy was implemented for controlling COVID-19, including surveillance, testing, contact tracing, isolation and quarantine. In addition, there were different levels of restrictions between March and October 2020.

Participants

We collected the deidentified line list of all the 192 450 COVID-19 cases reported from 17 March to 31 October 2020 in Chennai and their contacts for the ana

SUBMITTER: M J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8921469 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature