The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Tanzania: recommendations based on lesson learned from China

As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) takes its course outside China, the number of imported cases to other countries is on the rise. Currently, Tanzania has received the first imported case on 16 March 2020. This letter serves to describe this specific event and put forth a number of recommendation...

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Autores principales: Tarimo, Clifford Silver, Wu, Jian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7183743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32355447
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-020-00214-x
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spelling pubmed-71837432020-04-27 The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Tanzania: recommendations based on lesson learned from China Tarimo, Clifford Silver Wu, Jian Trop Med Health Letter to the Editor As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) takes its course outside China, the number of imported cases to other countries is on the rise. Currently, Tanzania has received the first imported case on 16 March 2020. This letter serves to describe this specific event and put forth a number of recommendations including establishing more testing points, discouraging all forms of public and religious gatherings, and tailoring a unique model for lockdown and social distancing to prevent further spread of the disease. The letter has also suggested ways to further improve the efforts already in place so as to strengthen the prevention and control system. BioMed Central 2020-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7183743/ /pubmed/32355447 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-020-00214-x Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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