Contact tracing: Unearthing key epidemiological features of COVID-19

Pranav Ish; Sumita Agrawal; Akhil Dhanesh Goel; Nitesh Gupta

doi:10.1177/2050313X20933483

Contact tracing: Unearthing key epidemiological features of COVID-19

SAGE Open Med Case Rep. 2020 Jun 24:8:2050313X20933483. doi: 10.1177/2050313X20933483. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Pranav Ish¹, Sumita Agrawal², Akhil Dhanesh Goel³, Nitesh Gupta^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Pulmonary Medicine, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India.
² Pulmonary medicine, Medipulse Hospital, Jodhpur, India.
³ Community Medicine & Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, India.
⁴ Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India.
⁵ Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, VMMC and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India.

Abstract

COVID-19 is an emerging global pandemic with a steady rise in both morbidity and mortality over the past few months. Contact tracing of COVID-19 patients is an essential task to mitigate the spread. The following case was one of the initial patients reported from India and details the importance of contact tracing, timely testing and adequate quarantine/isolation in disease control.

Keywords: COVID-19; contact tracing; prevention; screening.

Publication types

Case Reports