Contact Tracing during Coronavirus Disease Outbreak, South Korea, 2020

Park, Young-Joon; June Choe, Young; Park, Ok; Young Park, Shin; Kim, Young‐Man; Kim, Jieun; Kweon, Sanghui; Woo, Yeonhee; Gwack, Jin; Sun Kim, Seong; Lee, Jin; Hyun, Junghee; Ryu, Boyeong; Suk Jang, Yoon; Kim, Hwami; Hwan Shin, Seung; Yi, Seonju; Lee, Sangeun; Kyoung Kim, Hee; Lee, Hyeyoung; Jin, Yeowon; Park, Eun-Mi; Woo Choi, Seung; Kim, Miyoung; Song, Jeongsuk; won Choi, Si; Wook Kim, Dong; Jeon, Byoung‐Hak; Yoo, Hyosoon; Kyeong Jeong, Eun

doi:10.3201/eid2610.201315

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Contact Tracing during Coronavirus Disease Outbreak, South Korea, 2020

Published in Emerging infectious diseases • Jul 16, 2020

Authors:

Young-Joon Park

Young June Choe

Ok Park

Abstract

We analyzed reports for 59,073 contacts of 5,706 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) index patients reported in South Korea during January 20-March 27, 2020. Of 10,592 household contacts, 11.8% had COVID-19. Of 48,481 nonhousehold contacts, 1.9% had COVID-19. Use of personal protective measures and socia...

Subject

Contact tracing

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Outbreak

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