Mouchtouri Varvara A, Bogogiannidou Zacharoula, Dirksen-Fischer Martin, Tsiodras Sotirios, Hadjichristodoulou Christos
Laboratory of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, 22, Papakyriazi street, Larisa, Greece.
EU Healthy Gateways Joint Action, Larissa, Greece.
Trop Med Health. 2020 Sep 14;48:79. doi: 10.1186/s41182-020-00260-5. eCollection 2020.
The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of entry screening measures applied at airports in response to the COVID-19 epidemic worldwide. Between 24 January and 17 February 2020, 5.2% (95% CI 3.1-8.5) of the 271 total imported COVID-19 cases worldwide (excluding imported cases arriving in China, Macao, and Hong Kong) with known detection location were captured through airport entry screening. The majority of imported COVID-19 cases (210) were identified by the health care system (77.5%). Efforts should focus on health care system preparedness for early case detection, since according to our and previous studies health care facilities are the actual point of entry of imported cases.
本研究的目的是概述全球机场为应对新冠疫情而采取的入境筛查措施。2020年1月24日至2月17日期间,在全球已知检测地点的271例(不包括抵达中国内地、澳门和香港的输入病例)输入性新冠病例中,有5.2%(95%置信区间3.1-8.5%)是通过机场入境筛查发现的。大多数输入性新冠病例(210例)是由医疗系统识别的(77.5%)。应将工作重点放在医疗系统对早期病例检测的准备上,因为根据我们的研究和以往研究,医疗机构是输入病例的实际入境点。