Assessing the regional impact of Japan's COVID-19 state of emergency declaration: a population-level observational study using social networking services.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

On 7 April 2020, the Japanese government declared a state of emergency in response to the novel coronavirus outbreak. To estimate the impact of the declaration on regional cities with low numbers of COVID-19 cases, large-scale surveillance to capture the current epidemiological situation of COVID-19 was urgently conducted in this study.

Design

Cohort study.

Setting

Social networking service (SNS)-based online survey conducted in five prefectures of Japan: Tottori, Kagawa, Shimane, Tokushima and Okayama.

Participants

127 121 participants from the five prefectures surveyed between 24 March and 5 May 2020.

Interventions

An SNS-based healthcare system named COOPERA (COvid-19: Operation for Personalized Empowerment to Render smart prevention And car

SUBMITTER: Yoneoka D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7886666 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature