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SUBMITTER: Du Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7276021 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 20200427
In early 2020, cities across China enacted strict social distancing measures to contain emerging coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreaks. We estimated the speed with which these measures contained community transmission in each of 58 Chinese cities. On average, containment was achieved 7.83 days (SD 6.79 days) after the implementation of social distancing interventions, with an average reduction in the reproduction number (Rt) of 54.3% (SD 17.6%) over that time period. A single day delay in the impleme ...[more]