Shortfalls in home quarantine for COVID-19 prevention: a case report

Quarantine of COVID-19 high risk groups is one strategy of interrupting chains of transmissions of the disease. We describe a COVID-19 imported case placed under home quarantine that resulted in 8 local transmission cases at the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic in Botswana. This case report highli...

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Autores principales: Mbenge, Chidzani Catherine, Tlale, Lebapotswe, Ntoni, Lisani, Mokgethi, Naledi, Kololo, Sidney Otladisa, Pharatlhatlhe, Rinett, Molefi, Tuduetso
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7796838/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33456663
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2020.37.1.27058
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author Mbenge, Chidzani Catherine
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Kololo, Sidney Otladisa
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Tlale, Lebapotswe
Ntoni, Lisani
Mokgethi, Naledi
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description Quarantine of COVID-19 high risk groups is one strategy of interrupting chains of transmissions of the disease. We describe a COVID-19 imported case placed under home quarantine that resulted in 8 local transmission cases at the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic in Botswana. This case report highlights that home quarantine if not well managed can lead to a surge in local cases and drawing from the literature we propose recommendations of strengthening home quarantine.
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spelling pubmed-77968382021-01-15 Shortfalls in home quarantine for COVID-19 prevention: a case report Mbenge, Chidzani Catherine Tlale, Lebapotswe Ntoni, Lisani Mokgethi, Naledi Kololo, Sidney Otladisa Pharatlhatlhe, Rinett Molefi, Tuduetso Pan Afr Med J Case Report Quarantine of COVID-19 high risk groups is one strategy of interrupting chains of transmissions of the disease. We describe a COVID-19 imported case placed under home quarantine that resulted in 8 local transmission cases at the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic in Botswana. This case report highlights that home quarantine if not well managed can lead to a surge in local cases and drawing from the literature we propose recommendations of strengthening home quarantine. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7796838/ /pubmed/33456663 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2020.37.1.27058 Text en Copyright: Chidzani Catherine Mbenge et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Molefi, Tuduetso
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