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Comment
. 2020 Mar 13;18(1):80.
doi: 10.1186/s12916-020-01551-8.

What further should be done to control COVID-19 outbreaks in addition to cases isolation and contact tracing measures?

Zhenjian He  1   2
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Comment

What further should be done to control COVID-19 outbreaks in addition to cases isolation and contact tracing measures?

Zhenjian He. BMC Med. .
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Conflict of interest statement

The author declares that he has no competing interests.

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Fig. 1
Confirmed cases daily in China. a Numbers of daily newly confirmed cases in Hubei Province and the whole country of China. b Total daily number of newly confirmed cases in other provinces and regions than Hubei in China. Figure 1 was generated by the author using data of daily newly confirmed cases in China. All the data used are publicly available from the website of National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China at http://www.nhc.gov.cn/yjb/new_index.shtml
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