COVID-19 control in China during mass population movements at New Year

The Lancet

Volumn 395, Issue 10226, 2020, Pages 764-766

  Chen, Simiao ^a   Yang, Juntao ^b   Yang, Weizhong ^c   Wang, Chen ^c,d   Bärnighausen, Till ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^d RESEARCH CENTER OF LASER FUSION   (China)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CHINA; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; EPIDEMIC; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MEDICAL CARE; MIGRATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUARANTINE; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL MARKETING; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; LEISURE; MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL STATUS; TRAVEL; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

COVID-19;

CHINA; COMMERCE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HOLIDAYS; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; TRAVEL;

EID: 85079885874     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30421-9     Document Type: Note

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