Detection of imported COVID-19 cases worldwide: early assessment of airport entry screening, 24 January until 17 February 2020

The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of entry screening measures applied at airports in response to the COVID-19 epidemic worldwide. Between 24 January and 17 February 2020, 5.2% (95% CI 3.1–8.5) of the 271 total imported COVID-19 cases worldwide (excluding imported cases arriving in...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Mouchtouri, Varvara A., Bogogiannidou, Zacharoula, Dirksen-Fischer, Martin, Tsiodras, Sotirios, Hadjichristodoulou, Christos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
Materias:
Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7487444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32939152
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-020-00260-5
_version_ 1783581487008841728
author Mouchtouri, Varvara A.
Bogogiannidou, Zacharoula
Dirksen-Fischer, Martin
Tsiodras, Sotirios
Hadjichristodoulou, Christos
author_facet Mouchtouri, Varvara A.
Bogogiannidou, Zacharoula
Dirksen-Fischer, Martin
Tsiodras, Sotirios
Hadjichristodoulou, Christos
author_sort Mouchtouri, Varvara A.
collection PubMed
description The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of entry screening measures applied at airports in response to the COVID-19 epidemic worldwide. Between 24 January and 17 February 2020, 5.2% (95% CI 3.1–8.5) of the 271 total imported COVID-19 cases worldwide (excluding imported cases arriving in China, Macao, and Hong Kong) with known detection location were captured through airport entry screening. The majority of imported COVID-19 cases (210) were identified by the health care system (77.5%). Efforts should focus on health care system preparedness for early case detection, since according to our and previous studies health care facilities are the actual point of entry of imported cases.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-7487444
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2020
publisher BioMed Central
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-74874442020-09-14 Detection of imported COVID-19 cases worldwide: early assessment of airport entry screening, 24 January until 17 February 2020 Mouchtouri, Varvara A. Bogogiannidou, Zacharoula Dirksen-Fischer, Martin Tsiodras, Sotirios Hadjichristodoulou, Christos Trop Med Health Letter to the Editor The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of entry screening measures applied at airports in response to the COVID-19 epidemic worldwide. Between 24 January and 17 February 2020, 5.2% (95% CI 3.1–8.5) of the 271 total imported COVID-19 cases worldwide (excluding imported cases arriving in China, Macao, and Hong Kong) with known detection location were captured through airport entry screening. The majority of imported COVID-19 cases (210) were identified by the health care system (77.5%). Efforts should focus on health care system preparedness for early case detection, since according to our and previous studies health care facilities are the actual point of entry of imported cases. BioMed Central 2020-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7487444/ /pubmed/32939152 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-020-00260-5 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/.
spellingShingle Letter to the Editor
Mouchtouri, Varvara A.
Bogogiannidou, Zacharoula
Dirksen-Fischer, Martin
Tsiodras, Sotirios
Hadjichristodoulou, Christos
Detection of imported COVID-19 cases worldwide: early assessment of airport entry screening, 24 January until 17 February 2020
title Detection of imported COVID-19 cases worldwide: early assessment of airport entry screening, 24 January until 17 February 2020
title_full Detection of imported COVID-19 cases worldwide: early assessment of airport entry screening, 24 January until 17 February 2020
title_fullStr Detection of imported COVID-19 cases worldwide: early assessment of airport entry screening, 24 January until 17 February 2020
title_full_unstemmed Detection of imported COVID-19 cases worldwide: early assessment of airport entry screening, 24 January until 17 February 2020
title_short Detection of imported COVID-19 cases worldwide: early assessment of airport entry screening, 24 January until 17 February 2020
title_sort detection of imported covid-19 cases worldwide: early assessment of airport entry screening, 24 january until 17 february 2020
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7487444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32939152
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-020-00260-5
work_keys_str_mv AT mouchtourivarvaraa detectionofimportedcovid19casesworldwideearlyassessmentofairportentryscreening24januaryuntil17february2020
AT bogogiannidouzacharoula detectionofimportedcovid19casesworldwideearlyassessmentofairportentryscreening24januaryuntil17february2020
AT dirksenfischermartin detectionofimportedcovid19casesworldwideearlyassessmentofairportentryscreening24januaryuntil17february2020
AT tsiodrassotirios detectionofimportedcovid19casesworldwideearlyassessmentofairportentryscreening24januaryuntil17february2020
AT hadjichristodoulouchristos detectionofimportedcovid19casesworldwideearlyassessmentofairportentryscreening24januaryuntil17february2020

Ejemplares similares