Escalating infection control response to the rapidly evolving epidemiology of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to SARS-CoV-2 in Hong Kong

Chi‐Chung Cheng, Vincent; Wong, Shuk‐Ching; Hon-Kwan Chen, Jonathan; Chik‐Yan Yip, Cyril; Wai‐Man Chuang, Vivien; T. Y. Tsang, O.; Sridhar, Siddharth; Fuk‐Woo Chan, Jasper; Ho, Pak‐Leung; Yuen, Kwok‐Yung

doi:10.1017/ice.2020.58

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Escalating infection control response to the rapidly evolving epidemiology of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to SARS-CoV-2 in Hong Kong

Published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology • Mar 5, 2020

Authors:

Vincent Chi‐Chung Cheng

Shuk‐Ching Wong

Jonathan Hon-Kwan Chen

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To describe the infection control preparedness measures undertaken for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) due to SARS-CoV-2 (previously known as 2019 novel coronavirus) in the first 42 days after announcement of a cluster of pneumonia in China, on December 31, 2019 (day 1) in Hong Kong. METHO...

Subject

Medicine

Contact tracing

Epidemiology

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