作者
Rachael Pung, Calvin J Chiew, Barnaby E Young, Sarah Chin, Mark IC Chen, Hannah E Clapham, Alex R Cook, Sebastian Maurer-Stroh, Matthias PHS Toh, Cuiqin Poh, Mabel Low, Joshua Lum, Valerie TJ Koh, Tze M Mak, Lin Cui, Raymond VTP Lin, Derrick Heng, Yee-Sin Leo, David C Lye, Vernon JM Lee, Kai-qian Kam, Shirin Kalimuddin, Seow Yen Tan, Jiashen Loh, Koh Cheng Thoon, Shawn Vasoo, Wei Xin Khong, Nur-Afidah Suhaimi, Sherlynn JH Chan, Emma Zhang, Olivia Oh, Albert Ty, Charlene Tow, Yi Xian Chua, Wei Liang Chaw, Yixiang Ng, Farid Abdul-Rahman, Shafiq Sahib, Zheng Zhao, Cheryl Tang, Constance Low, Ee Hui Goh, Georgina Lim, Imran Roshan, James Tan, Kelly Foo, Khine Nandar, Lalitha Kurupatham, Pei Pei Chan, Pream Raj, Yijun Lin, Zubaidah Said, Anne Lee, Cherie See, Jessey Markose, Joanna Tan, Guanhao Chan, Wanhan See, Xinyi Peh, Vincent Cai, Wen Kai Chen, Zongbin Li, Roy Soo, Angela LP Chow, Wycliffe Wei, Aysha Farwin, Li Wei Ang
发表日期
2020/3/28
期刊
The Lancet
卷号
395
期号
10229
页码范围
1039-1046
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background
Three clusters of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) linked to a tour group from China, a company conference, and a church were identified in Singapore in February, 2020.
Methods
We gathered epidemiological and clinical data from individuals with confirmed COVID-19, via interviews and inpatient medical records, and we did field investigations to assess interactions and possible modes of transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Open source reports were obtained for overseas cases. We reported the median (IQR) incubation period of SARS-CoV-2.
Findings
As of Feb 15, 2020, 36 cases of COVID-19 were linked epidemiologically to the first three clusters of circumscribed local transmission in Singapore. 425 close contacts were quarantined. Direct or prolonged close contact was reported among affected individuals, although indirect transmission (eg, via …
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