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Case Reports
. 2020 Jun 24:8:2050313X20933483.
doi: 10.1177/2050313X20933483. eCollection 2020.

Contact tracing: Unearthing key epidemiological features of COVID-19

Pranav Ish  1 , Sumita Agrawal  2 , Akhil Dhanesh Goel  3 , Nitesh Gupta  1   4   5
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Contact tracing: Unearthing key epidemiological features of COVID-19

Pranav Ish et al. SAGE Open Med Case Rep. .

Abstract

COVID-19 is an emerging global pandemic with a steady rise in both morbidity and mortality over the past few months. Contact tracing of COVID-19 patients is an essential task to mitigate the spread. The following case was one of the initial patients reported from India and details the importance of contact tracing, timely testing and adequate quarantine/isolation in disease control.

Keywords: COVID-19; contact tracing; prevention; screening.

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Declaration of conflicting interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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