Post-lockdown SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening in nearly ten million residents of Wuhan, China

Stringent COVID-19 control measures were imposed in Wuhan between January 23 and April 8, 2020. Estimates of the prevalence of infection following the release of restrictions could inform post-lockdown pandemic management. Here, we describe a city-wide SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening programme bet...

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Autores principales: Cao, Shiyi, Gan, Yong, Wang, Chao, Bachmann, Max, Wei, Shanbo, Gong, Jie, Huang, Yuchai, Wang, Tiantian, Li, Liqing, Lu, Kai, Jiang, Heng, Gong, Yanhong, Xu, Hongbin, Shen, Xin, Tian, Qingfeng, Lv, Chuanzhu, Song, Fujian, Yin, Xiaoxv, Lu, Zuxun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7679396/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33219229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19802-w
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Sumario:Stringent COVID-19 control measures were imposed in Wuhan between January 23 and April 8, 2020. Estimates of the prevalence of infection following the release of restrictions could inform post-lockdown pandemic management. Here, we describe a city-wide SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening programme between May 14 and June 1, 2020 in Wuhan. All city residents aged six years or older were eligible and 9,899,828 (92.9%) participated. No new symptomatic cases and 300 asymptomatic cases (detection rate 0.303/10,000, 95% CI 0.270–0.339/10,000) were identified. There were no positive tests amongst 1,174 close contacts of asymptomatic cases. 107 of 34,424 previously recovered COVID-19 patients tested positive again (re-positive rate 0.31%, 95% CI 0.423–0.574%). The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Wuhan was therefore very low five to eight weeks after the end of lockdown.

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