Interrupting transmission of COVID-19: lessons from containment efforts in Singapore.

Despite multiple importations resulting in local chains of transmission, Singapore has been able to control the COVID-19 outbreak without major disruption to daily living. In this article, we describe the combination of measures taken by Singapore to contain COVID-19 and share some early lessons learnt from the experience.

keywords 🔗 COVID-19 (1240) 🔗 Singapore (48) 🔗 coronavirus (5664) 🔗 importation (19) 🔗 mitigation (17) 🔗 outbreak (1126)

author 👤 Lee, Vernon J 👤 Chiew, Calvin J 👤 Khong, Wei Xin

year ⏰ 2020

journal 📚 J Travel Med

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doi 📄 10.1093/jtm/taaa039 ⤴

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