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Weathering COVID-19 storm: Successful control measures of five Asian countries

• COVID-19 control measures taken by 5 Asian countries first hit by coronavirus. • China took extremely aggressive measures of lockdowns and closing business. • Singapore took proactive measures of border controls and extensive contact tracing. • Taiwan-seized border control and strict home quaranti...

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Autores principales: Lu, Ning, Cheng, Kai-Wen, Qamar, Nafees, Huang, Kuo-Cherh, Johnson, James A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7189844/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32360746
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.04.021
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description • COVID-19 control measures taken by 5 Asian countries first hit by coronavirus. • China took extremely aggressive measures of lockdowns and closing business. • Singapore took proactive measures of border controls and extensive contact tracing. • Taiwan-seized border control and strict home quarantine with the use of big data. • South Korea executed widespread testing and contact tracing. • Japan promoted measures of social distancing.
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spelling pubmed-71898442020-04-29 Weathering COVID-19 storm: Successful control measures of five Asian countries Lu, Ning Cheng, Kai-Wen Qamar, Nafees Huang, Kuo-Cherh Johnson, James A. Am J Infect Control Article • COVID-19 control measures taken by 5 Asian countries first hit by coronavirus. • China took extremely aggressive measures of lockdowns and closing business. • Singapore took proactive measures of border controls and extensive contact tracing. • Taiwan-seized border control and strict home quarantine with the use of big data. • South Korea executed widespread testing and contact tracing. • Japan promoted measures of social distancing. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020-07 2020-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7189844/ /pubmed/32360746 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.04.021 Text en © 2020 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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