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EUROSURVEILLANCE
卷 25, 期 16, 页码 23-31出版社
EUR CENTRE DIS PREVENTION & CONTROL
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.16.2000155
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- Research Fund for the Control of Infectious Diseases, Hong Kong [INF-CUHK-1]
- General Research Fund [14112818]
- Health and Medical Research Fund [17160302, 18170312]
- Wellcome Trust (UK) [200861/Z/16/Z]
Background: COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, first appeared in China and subsequently developed into an ongoing epidemic. Understanding epidemiological factors characterising the transmission dynamics of this disease is of fundamental importance. Aims: This study aimed to describe key epidemiological parameters of COVID-19 in Hong Kong. Methods: We extracted data of confirmed COVID-19 cases and their close contacts from the publicly available information released by the Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection. We used doubly interval censored likelihood to estimate containment delay and serial interval, by fitting gamma, lognormal and Weibull distributions to respective empirical values using Bayesian framework with right truncation. A generalised linear regression model was employed to identify factors associated with containment delay. Secondary attack rate was also estimated. Results: The empirical containment delay was 6.39 days; whereas after adjusting for right truncation with the best-fit Weibull distribution, it was 10.4 days (95%Crl: 7.15 to 19.81). Containment delay increased significantly over time. Local source of infection and number of doctor consultations before isolation were associated with longer containment delay. The empirical serial interval was 4.58-6.06 days; whereas the best-fit lognormal distribution to 26 certain-and-probable infector-infectee paired data gave an estimate of 4.77 days (95%Crl: 3.47 to 6.90) with right-truncation. The secondary attack rate among close contacts was 11.7%. Conclusion: With a considerable containment delay and short serial interval, contact-tracing effectiveness may not be optimised to halt the transmission with rapid generations replacement. Our study highlights the transmission risk of social interaction and pivotal role of physical distancing in suppressing the epidemic.
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