Early transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in a southern hemisphere setting: Lima-Peru: February 29 th -March 30 th , 2020.

Autor:	Munayco CV; Centro Nacional de Epidemiología, Prevención y Control de Enfermedades, Peruvian Ministry of Health, Lima, Peru., Tariq A; Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA., Rothenberg R; Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA., Soto-Cabezas GG; Centro Nacional de Epidemiología, Prevención y Control de Enfermedades, Peruvian Ministry of Health, Lima, Peru., Reyes MF; Centro Nacional de Epidemiología, Prevención y Control de Enfermedades, Peruvian Ministry of Health, Lima, Peru., Valle A; Centro Nacional de Epidemiología, Prevención y Control de Enfermedades, Peruvian Ministry of Health, Lima, Peru., Rojas-Mezarina L; Instituto Nacional de Salud, Peruvian Ministry of Health, Lima, Peru., Cabezas C; Instituto Nacional de Salud, Peruvian Ministry of Health, Lima, Peru., Loayza M; Centro Nacional de Epidemiología, Prevención y Control de Enfermedades, Peruvian Ministry of Health, Lima, Peru., Chowell G; Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Infectious Disease Modelling [Infect Dis Model] 2020 May 12; Vol. 5, pp. 338-345. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 May 12 (Print Publication: 2020).
DOI:	10.1016/j.idm.2020.05.001
Abstrakt:	The COVID-19 pandemic that emerged in Wuhan China has generated substantial morbidity and mortality impact around the world during the last four months. The daily trend in reported cases has been rapidly rising in Latin America since March 2020 with the great majority of the cases reported in Brazil followed by Peru as of April 15th, 2020. Although Peru implemented a range of social distancing measures soon after the confirmation of its first case on March 6th, 2020, the daily number of new COVID-19 cases continues to accumulate in this country. We assessed the early COVID-19 transmission dynamics and the effect of social distancing interventions in Lima, Peru. We estimated the reproduction number, R, during the early transmission phase in Lima from the daily series of imported and autochthonous cases by the date of symptoms onset as of March 30th, 2020. We also assessed the effect of social distancing interventions in Lima by generating short-term forecasts grounded on the early transmission dynamics before interventions were put in place. Prior to the implementation of the social distancing measures in Lima, the local incidence curve by the date of symptoms onset displays near exponential growth dynamics with the mean scaling of growth parameter, p, estimated at 0.96 (95% CI: 0.87, 1.0) and the reproduction number at 2.3 (95% CI: 2.0, 2.5). Our analysis indicates that school closures and other social distancing interventions have helped slow down the spread of the novel coronavirus, with the nearly exponential growth trend shifting to an approximately linear growth trend soon after the broad scale social distancing interventions were put in place by the government. While the interventions appear to have slowed the transmission rate in Lima, the number of new COVID-19 cases continue to accumulate, highlighting the need to strengthen social distancing and active case finding efforts to mitigate disease transmission in the region. Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing or conflicting financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. (© 2020 The Authors.)
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