Extensive contact tracing and isolation were key tools in controlling the spread of COVID-19 in Shenzhen, China, a new study has found.
, utilized January and February information from the Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 7% of close contacts who shared a meal with an infected individual and 11% of household members in the study subsequently contractedthemselves. Nine percent of contacts who traveled with an infected individual became sick themselves. "There was no significant association between probability of infection and age," the study's authors wrote.
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