Public Health England Yorkshire and the Humber, Health Protection Team, Leeds, UK.
Field Epidemiology, Field Service, National Infection Service, Public Health England, Leeds, UK.
Epidemiol Infect. 2020 Aug 28;148:e194. doi: 10.1017/S0950268820001922.
We report key learning from the public health management of the first two confirmed cases of COVID-19 identified in the UK. The first case imported, and the second associated with probable person-to-person transmission within the UK. Contact tracing was complex and fast-moving. Potential exposures for both cases were reviewed, and 52 contacts were identified. No further confirmed COVID-19 cases have been linked epidemiologically to these two cases. As steps are made to enhance contact tracing across the UK, the lessons learned from earlier contact tracing during the country's containment phase are particularly important and timely.
我们报告了从英国首例和第二例经确认的 COVID-19 病例的公共卫生管理中获得的主要经验。第一例病例是输入性病例，第二例与英国境内可能的人际传播有关。接触者追踪工作复杂且迅速。对这两例病例的所有潜在接触者进行了审查，共确定了 52 名接触者。这两例病例没有与其他经流行病学证实的 COVID-19 病例相关联。随着英国各地加强接触者追踪的措施的实施，从该国遏制阶段早期接触者追踪中吸取的经验教训尤其重要和及时。
