A window of opportunity for intensifying testing and tracing efforts to prevent new COVID-19 outbreaks due to more transmissible variants
Background: When public health interventions are being loosened after several days of decline in the number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, it is of critical importance to identify potential strategies to ease restrictions while mitigating a new wave of more transmissible variants of c...
Main Authors: | Jianhong Wu, Francesca Scarabel, Zachary McCarthy, Yanyu Xiao, Nicholas H Ogden |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Health Agency of Canada
2021-07-01
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Series: | Canada Communicable Disease Report |
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Online Access: | https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/reports-publications/canada-communicable-disease-report-ccdr/monthly-issue/2021-47/issue-7-8-july-august-2021/covid-19-variants.html |
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