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. 2020 Oct;92(10):1948-1955.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.25906. Epub 2020 May 22.

Description of COVID-19 cases along with the measures taken on prevention and control in Zhejiang, China

Guan Wang  1 , Wenhu Chen  2 , Xian Jin  3 , Yi-Peng Chen  4
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Description of COVID-19 cases along with the measures taken on prevention and control in Zhejiang, China

Guan Wang et al. J Med Virol. 2020 Oct.

Abstract

Under the outbreak of COVID-19, it was urgent to analyze the cases from clinical features and epidemiological factors, as well as understand the effectiveness of measures taken on disease prevent and control. A retrospective study was applied for descriptive analysis of clinical features and epidemiological factors of confirmed cases in four cities of Zhejiang. The Onset-admission interval was calculated and plotted as well. The provincial measures regarding the response of COVID-19 were summed up and sorted out. The distribution and sex and age were under normality distribution, and the age of 20 to 80 were all in risk of developing the disease. Clinical features of fever and cough were found mostly happen on patients. More than half of the patients had image changed on chest from reported data. The factor of closely contacted with confirmed cases was the most cause to the disease. The median onset-admission interval was 6 days in Zhejiang province. As of the efficient health system, COVID-19 had been successfully prevented and controlled in Zhejiang. Males and females were all vulnerable to COVID-19. Preventing contact with confirmed cases could largely avoid the disease to happen. The government should take emergent and effective measures to prevent and treatment of the pandemic disease.

Keywords: COVID-19; clinical features; epidemiological factor; provincial measures.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there are no conflict of interests.

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Figure 1
Distribution of gender and age from summing up COVID‐19 cases in four cities
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Figure 2
Epidemiological analysis for COVID‐19 exposure in four major cities
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Figure 3
Date of onset and diagnosis from summed data in Zhejiang
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Figure 4
Measures have taken on prevention and control of COVID‐19
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