Opening up safely: public health system requirements for ongoing COVID-19 management based on evaluation of Australia's surveillance system performance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) community transmission was eliminated in Australia from 1/11/2020 to 30/6/2021, allowing evaluation of surveillance system performance in detecting novel outbreaks, including against variants of concern (VoCs). This paper aims to define system requirements for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) surveillance under future transmission and response scenarios, based on surveillance system performance to date.

Methods

This study described and evaluated surveillance systems and epidemiological characteristics of novel outbreaks based on publicly available data, and assessed surveillance system sensitivity and timeliness in outbreak detection. These findings were integrated with analysis of other critical COVI

SUBMITTER: Lokuge K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9010199 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature