Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2293-x
Title: Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain COVID-19 in China.
Authors: Lai, Shengjie
Ruktanonchai, Nick W
Zhou, Liangcai
Prosper, Olivia
Luo, Wei 
Floyd, Jessica R
Wesolowski, Amy
Santillana, Mauricio
Zhang, Chi
Du, Xiangjun
Yu, Hongjie
Tatem, Andrew J
Keywords: COVID-19
China
Contact Tracing
Coronavirus Infections
Hand Disinfection
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral
Quarantine
Risk Assessment
Social Isolation
Time Factors
Travel
Issue Date: Sep-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Citation: Lai, Shengjie, Ruktanonchai, Nick W, Zhou, Liangcai, Prosper, Olivia, Luo, Wei, Floyd, Jessica R, Wesolowski, Amy, Santillana, Mauricio, Zhang, Chi, Du, Xiangjun, Yu, Hongjie, Tatem, Andrew J (2020-09). Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain COVID-19 in China.. Nature 585 (7825) : 410-413. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2293-x
Abstract: On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic1. The strategies based on non-pharmaceutical interventions that were used to contain the outbreak in China appear to be effective2, but quantitative research is still needed to assess the efficacy of non-pharmaceutical interventions and their timings3. Here, using epidemiological data on COVID-19 and anonymized data on human movement4,5, we develop a modelling framework that uses daily travel networks to simulate different outbreak and intervention scenarios across China. We estimate that there were a total of 114,325 cases of COVID-19 (interquartile range 76,776-164,576) in mainland China as of 29 February 2020. Without non-pharmaceutical interventions, we predict that the number of cases would have been 67-fold higher (interquartile range 44-94-fold) by 29 February 2020, and we find that the effectiveness of different interventions varied. We estimate that early detection and isolation of cases prevented more infections than did travel restrictions and contact reductions, but that a combination of non-pharmaceutical interventions achieved the strongest and most rapid effect. According to our model, the lifting of travel restrictions from 17 February 2020 does not lead to an increase in cases across China if social distancing interventions can be maintained, even at a limited level of an on average 25% reduction in contact between individuals that continues until late April. These findings improve our understanding of the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19, and will inform response efforts across the world.
Source Title: Nature
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/229484
ISSN: 00280836
14764687
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2293-x
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