Routine testing of close contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases - National COVID-19 Contact Management Programme, Ireland, May to August 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The objective of this study was to inform public health practitioners who are designing, adapting and implementing testing and tracing strategies for Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) control.

Study design

The study design is monitoring and evaluation of a national public health protection programme.

Methods

All close contacts of laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 identified between the 19th May and 2nd August were included; secondary attack rates and numbers needed to test were estimated.

Results

Four thousand five hundred eighty six of 7272 (63%) close contacts of cases were tested with at least one test. The secondary attack rate in close contacts who were tested was 7% (95% Confidence Interval [CI]: 6.3 - 7.8%). At the 'day 0' test, 14.6% (95% C

SUBMITTER: Carroll C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7577651 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature