COVID-19: Public Health management of the first two confirmed cases identified in the UK

B. Holden; A. Quinney; S. Padfield; W. Morton; S. Coles; P. Manley; A. Wensley; C. Hutchinson; P. J. Lillie; C. J.A. Duncan; M. L. Schmid; A. Li; K. Foster; S. Anaraki; Gavin Dabrera; Maria Zambon; G. J. Hughes; M. Gent

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COVID-19: Public Health management of the first two confirmed cases identified in the UK

B. Holden^*, A. Quinney, S. Padfield, W. Morton, S. Coles, P. Manley, A. Wensley, C. Hutchinson, P. J. Lillie, C. J.A. Duncan, M. L. Schmid, A. Li, K. Foster, S. Anaraki, Gavin Dabrera, Maria Zambon, G. J. Hughes, M. Gent

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We report key learning from the public health management of the first two confirmed cases of COVID-19 identified in the UK. The first case imported, and the second associated with probable person-To-person transmission within the UK. Contact tracing was complex and fast-moving. Potential exposures for both cases were reviewed, and 52 contacts were identified. No further confirmed COVID-19 cases have been linked epidemiologically to these two cases. As steps are made to renew contact tracing across the UK, the lessons learned from earlier contact tracing during the country's containment phase are particularly important and timely.

Original language	English
Article number	e194
Journal	Epidemiology and Infection
Volume	148
Early online date	28 Aug 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268820001922
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 28 Aug 2020

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Citation: Holden B et al (2020). COVID-19: public health management of the first two confirmed cases identified in the UK. Epidemiology and Infection 148, e194, 1–4.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268820001922

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Holden, B., Quinney, A., Padfield, S., Morton, W., Coles, S., Manley, P., Wensley, A., Hutchinson, C., Lillie, P. J., Duncan, C. J. A., Schmid, M. L., Li, A., Foster, K., Anaraki, S., Dabrera, G., Zambon, M., Hughes, G. J., & Gent, M. (2020). COVID-19: Public Health management of the first two confirmed cases identified in the UK. Epidemiology and Infection, 148, Article e194. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268820001922

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