Successful control of COVID-19 outbreak through tracing, testing, and isolation: Lessons learned from the outbreak control efforts made in a metropolitan city of South Korea

The first surge of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases began on June 27, 2020 in Gwangju metropolitan city, located in the southwestern part of South Korea, with a population of 1,501,000. Local governments and the Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention immediately started an epidemi...

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Autores principales: Kang, Seung-Ji, Kim, Sooyeon, Park, Kyung-Hwa, Jung, Sook In, Shin, Min-Ho, Kweon, Sun-Seog, Park, Hyang, Choi, Seong-Woo, Lee, Eungyu, Ryu, So Yeon
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Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8276554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34364306
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2021.07.003
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author Kang, Seung-Ji
Kim, Sooyeon
Park, Kyung-Hwa
Jung, Sook In
Shin, Min-Ho
Kweon, Sun-Seog
Park, Hyang
Choi, Seong-Woo
Lee, Eungyu
Ryu, So Yeon
author_facet Kang, Seung-Ji
Kim, Sooyeon
Park, Kyung-Hwa
Jung, Sook In
Shin, Min-Ho
Kweon, Sun-Seog
Park, Hyang
Choi, Seong-Woo
Lee, Eungyu
Ryu, So Yeon
author_sort Kang, Seung-Ji
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description The first surge of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases began on June 27, 2020 in Gwangju metropolitan city, located in the southwestern part of South Korea, with a population of 1,501,000. Local governments and the Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention immediately started an epidemiologic investigation and traced the contacts of patients using a wide variety of data sources, including location data from mobile devices, credit card transaction, and closed-circuit television footage. Until July 16, 2020, 138 community transmission cases and 10 infection clusters were identified across the city. Through contact tracing, epidemiologic relatedness was found in 136 (98.6%) of 138 cases. Our investigation showed how the extensive and meticulous contact tracing suppressed COVID-19 outbreak in a populated city.
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spelling pubmed-82765542021-07-14 Successful control of COVID-19 outbreak through tracing, testing, and isolation: Lessons learned from the outbreak control efforts made in a metropolitan city of South Korea Kang, Seung-Ji Kim, Sooyeon Park, Kyung-Hwa Jung, Sook In Shin, Min-Ho Kweon, Sun-Seog Park, Hyang Choi, Seong-Woo Lee, Eungyu Ryu, So Yeon J Infect Public Health Article The first surge of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases began on June 27, 2020 in Gwangju metropolitan city, located in the southwestern part of South Korea, with a population of 1,501,000. Local governments and the Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention immediately started an epidemiologic investigation and traced the contacts of patients using a wide variety of data sources, including location data from mobile devices, credit card transaction, and closed-circuit television footage. Until July 16, 2020, 138 community transmission cases and 10 infection clusters were identified across the city. Through contact tracing, epidemiologic relatedness was found in 136 (98.6%) of 138 cases. Our investigation showed how the extensive and meticulous contact tracing suppressed COVID-19 outbreak in a populated city. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. 2021-09 2021-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8276554/ /pubmed/34364306 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2021.07.003 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) 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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Kang, Seung-Ji
Kim, Sooyeon
Park, Kyung-Hwa
Jung, Sook In
Shin, Min-Ho
Kweon, Sun-Seog
Park, Hyang
Choi, Seong-Woo
Lee, Eungyu
Ryu, So Yeon
Successful control of COVID-19 outbreak through tracing, testing, and isolation: Lessons learned from the outbreak control efforts made in a metropolitan city of South Korea
title Successful control of COVID-19 outbreak through tracing, testing, and isolation: Lessons learned from the outbreak control efforts made in a metropolitan city of South Korea
title_full Successful control of COVID-19 outbreak through tracing, testing, and isolation: Lessons learned from the outbreak control efforts made in a metropolitan city of South Korea
title_fullStr Successful control of COVID-19 outbreak through tracing, testing, and isolation: Lessons learned from the outbreak control efforts made in a metropolitan city of South Korea
title_full_unstemmed Successful control of COVID-19 outbreak through tracing, testing, and isolation: Lessons learned from the outbreak control efforts made in a metropolitan city of South Korea
title_short Successful control of COVID-19 outbreak through tracing, testing, and isolation: Lessons learned from the outbreak control efforts made in a metropolitan city of South Korea
title_sort successful control of covid-19 outbreak through tracing, testing, and isolation: lessons learned from the outbreak control efforts made in a metropolitan city of south korea
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8276554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34364306
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2021.07.003
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