Use of contact tracing, isolation, and mass testing to control transmission of covid-19 in China

Yibiao Zhou; Honglin Jiang; Quanyi Wang; Meixia Yang; Yue Chen; Qingwu Jiang

doi:10.1136/bmj.n2330

Use of contact tracing, isolation, and mass testing to control transmission of covid-19 in China

BMJ. 2021 Dec 1:375:n2330. doi: 10.1136/bmj.n2330.

Authors

Yibiao Zhou^{1

2

3}, Honglin Jiang^{4

2

3}, Quanyi Wang⁵, Meixia Yang⁶, Yue Chen⁷, Qingwu Jiang^{4

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Fudan University School of Public Health, Shanghai, China.
² Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Fudan University, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China.
³ Fudan University Centre for Tropical Disease Research, Shanghai, China.
⁴ Fudan University School of Public Health, Shanghai, China jiangqw@fudan.edu.cn.
⁵ Beijing Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and Beijing Research Centre for Preventive Medicine, Beijing, China.
⁶ Xuhui Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China.
⁷ School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Abstract

Qingwu Jiang and colleagues discuss China’s experience of contact tracing, isolation, and quarantine of infected people and their contacts, and mass nucleic acid testing in the second phase of the covid-19 epidemic

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / epidemiology
COVID-19 / transmission*
COVID-19 Testing / statistics & numerical data*
China / epidemiology
Contact Tracing
Humans
Pandemics / prevention & control
Physical Distancing*
Quarantine*
SARS-CoV-2