WHO Collaborating Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, 999077, China.
Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health Limited, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong SAR, 999077, China.
J Travel Med. 2022 Sep 17;29(6). doi: 10.1093/jtm/taac073.
Omicron, a fast-spreading SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern reported to the World Health Organization on 24 November 2021, has raised international alarm. We estimated there is at least 50% chance that Omicron had been introduced by travellers from South Africa into 11 of the 14 countries studied by 28 November 2021.
Omicron,一种快速传播的 SARS-CoV-2 变体,于 2021 年 11 月 24 日向世界卫生组织报告,引起了国际警报。我们估计,至少有 50%的可能性是,到 2021 年 11 月 28 日为止,南非旅行者将 Omicron 带入了 14 个研究国家中的 11 个。