The effect of travel restrictions on the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

Science

Volumn 368, Issue 6489, 2020, Pages 395-400

  Chinazzi, Matteo ^a   Davis, Jessica T ^a   Ajelli, Marco ^b   Gioannini, Corrado ^c   Litvinova, Maria ^c   Merler, Stefano ^b   Pastore y Piontti, Ana ^a   Mu, Kunpeng ^a   Rossi, Luca ^c   Sun, Kaiyuan ^d   Viboud, Cécile ^d   Xiong, Xinyue ^a   Yu, Hongjie ^e   Elizabeth Halloran, M ^f,g   Longini, Ira M ^h   Vespignani, Alessandro ^a,c  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^c ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; INFECTIVITY; METAPOPULATION; QUARANTINE; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; VIRAL DISEASE; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION RATE; POPULATION RISK; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUARANTINE; RISK REDUCTION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; TRAVEL RESTRICTION;

CHINA; HUBEI; WUHAN;

CORONAVIRUS;

EID: 85082703730     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aba9757     Document Type: Article

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