Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Genomic assessment of quarantine measures to prevent SARS-CoV-2 importation and transmission

  • Dinesh Aggarwal,
  • Andrew J. Page,
  • Ulf Schaefer,
  • George M. Savva,
  • Richard Myers,
  • Erik Volz,
  • Nicholas Ellaby,
  • Steven Platt,
  • Natalie Groves,
  • Eileen Gallagher,
  • Niamh M. Tumelty,
  • Thanh Le Viet,
  • Gareth J. Hughes,
  • Cong Chen,
  • Charlie Turner,
  • Sophie Logan,
  • Abbie Harrison,
  • The COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium,
  • Sharon J. Peacock,
  • Meera Chand,
  • Ewan M. Harrison

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28371-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Post-international travel quarantine has been widely implemented to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 transmission, but the impacts of such policies are unclear. Here, the authors used linked genomic and contact tracing data to assess the impacts of a 14-day quarantine on return to England in summer 2020.