• J Travel Med · Dec 2022

    Impact of mass rapid antigen testing for SARS-CoV-2 to mitigate Omicron outbreaks in China.

    • Zengyang Shao, Lijia Ma, Yuan Bai, Qi Tan, Xiao Fan Liu, Shiyong Liu, Sheikh Taslim Ali, Lin Wang, LauEric H YEHYLaboratory of Data Discovery for Health Limited, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong, SAR, China.WHO Collaborating Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong, Benjamin J Cowling, and Zhanwei Du.
    • College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, ShenZhen University, Shen Zhen, China.
    • J Travel Med. 2022 Dec 27; 29 (8).

    AbstractWe analysed the effectiveness of various non-pharmaceutical interventions in containing the 2022 Omicron outbreak in China. The results show that the Rapid Antigen Test contributed to containing the outbreak, reducing the reproduction number by 0.788 (95% CI:−0.306, 1.880) in studied cities.

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