Clusters of 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) cases in Chinese tour groups. Issue 2 (27th July 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Clusters of 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) cases in Chinese tour groups. Issue 2 (27th July 2020)
- Main Title:
- Clusters of 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) cases in Chinese tour groups
- Authors:
- Kong, Dechuan
Wang, Yuanping
Lu, Lu
Wu, Huanyu
Ye, Chuchu
Wagner, Abram L.
Yang, Jixing
Zheng, Yaxu
Gong, Xiaohuan
Zhu, Yiyi
Jin, Bihong
Xiao, Wenjia
Mao, Shenghua
Jiang, Chenyan
Lin, Sheng
Han, Ruobing
Yu, Xiao
Cui, Peng
Fang, Qiwen
Lu, Yihan
Pan, Hao - Abstract:
- Abstract: International travel may facilitate the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID‐19). The study describes clusters of COVID‐19 cases within Chinese tour groups travelling in Europe January 16–28. We compared characteristics of cases and non‐cases to determine transmission dynamics. The index case travelled from Wuhan, China, to Europe on 16 January 2020, and to Shanghai, China, on 27 January 2020, within a tour group (group A). Tour groups with the same outbound flight (group B) or the same tourism venue (group D) and all Chinese passengers on the inbound flight (group C) were investigated. The outbreak involved 11 confirmed cases, 10 suspected cases and six tourists who remained healthy. Group A, involving seven confirmed cases and six suspected cases, consisted of familial transmission followed by propagative transmission. There was less pathogenicity with propagative transmission than with familial transmission. Disease was transmitted in shared outbound flights, shopping venues within Europe and inbound flight back to China. The novel coronavirus caused clustered cases of COVID‐19 in tour groups. When tourism and travel opens up, governments will need to improve screening at airports and consider increased surveillance of tour groups—particularly those with older tour members.
- Is Part Of:
- Transboundary and emerging diseases. Volume 68:Issue 2(2021)
- Journal:
- Transboundary and emerging diseases
- Issue:
- Volume 68:Issue 2(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 68, Issue 2 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 68
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0068-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 684
- Page End:
- 691
- Publication Date:
- 2020-07-27
- Subjects:
- China -- coronavirus -- disease outbreaks -- severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 -- travel -- virulence
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- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1865-1682 ↗
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/rd.asp?goto=journal&code=jva ↗
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/schm/contents/ ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/tbed.13729 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1865-1674
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