Incubation period of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infections among travellers from Wuhan, China, 20–28 January 2020

A. Backer, Jantien; Klinkenberg, Don; Wallinga, Jacco

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.es.2020.25.5.2000062

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Incubation period of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infections among travellers from Wuhan, China, 20–28 January 2020

Published in Eurosurveillance • Feb 6, 2020

Authors:

Jantien A. Backer

Don Klinkenberg

Jacco Wallinga

Abstract

A novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is causing an outbreak of viral pneumonia that started in Wuhan, China. Using the travel history and symptom onset of 88 confirmed cases that were detected outside Wuhan in the early outbreak phase, we estimate the mean incubation period to be 6.4 days (95% credible i...

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Incubation period

Outbreak

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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