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. 2024 Feb 22;15(1):1–9. doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2024.15.1.1078

Table 2. SARS-CoV-2 positivity, underdetection and undernotification among participants from two administrative areas of Port Vila, Vanuatu, April 2022.

Outcome n % 95% CI
SARS-CoV-2 positivity
  Attack rate (point prevalence) 89 50.9a 43.2–58.5
  Cumulative attack rate 104b 55.3c 47.9–62.6
SARS-CoV-2 underdetection
  Number of positive participants that were not detected before the study
  (self-reported and verified)
89 85.6d 77.3–91.7
SARS-CoV-2 notification rate
  Participants self-reporting previous positive test result 23 9.2e 3.2–15.1
  Participants self-reporting previous positive test result with corresponding notification to surveillance unit 15 65.2f 49.4–81.0
SARS-CoV-2 testing
  Participants reporting having had a specimen tested for SARS-CoV-2 during
  the previous month
31 12.3e 5.4–19.2
  Positive participants reporting having had a specimen tested for SARS-CoV-2 during the previous month 22 20.4d 11.5–29.2
Household attack rate
  Number of households with at least one case 50 59.5f 44.4–74.6
  Secondary household attack rate 47.7g 34.2–61.2

CI: confidence interval; SARS-CoV-2: severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.

a Denominator includes all 175 participants who had a specimen collected in the study.

b Numerator includes 89 participants detected in this study plus 15 participants with verified previous infection.

c Denominator includes 188 participants with known SARS-CoV-2 test result, excluding those with no testing history.

d Denominator includes all 104 SARS-CoV-2-positive participants.

e Denominator includes all 252 participants.

f Denominator includes all 84 households.

g Rate is only calculated for 50 households with at least one case.