Correlation between travellers departing from Wuhan before the Spring Festival and subsequent spread of COVID-19 to all provinces in China

Ping Zhong; Songxue Guo; Ting Chen

doi:10.1093/jtm/taaa036

. 2020 Mar 17:taaa036. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taaa036

Correlation between travellers departing from Wuhan before the Spring Festival and subsequent spread of COVID-19 to all provinces in China

Ping Zhong ^1,^#,^✉, Songxue Guo ^2,^#, Ting Chen ^3,^#

PMCID: PMC7184328 PMID: 32181483

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We found a strong correlation between travel volumes departing from Wuhan, Hubei Province before the Spring Festival and the extent of amplification of the outbreak of COVID-19 in China in 2020, with 100 top cities. Almost 70% of exportations were within cities in Hubei province.

Keywords: Coronavirus, Public health emergency of international concern, 2019-nCov, Migration, Containment, Quarantine, Trave

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Ping Zhong, MD

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Ting Chen, MD

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