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. 2021 Jul 2;3(27):584-586.
doi: 10.46234/ccdcw2021.148.

Transmission Dynamics of an Outbreak of the COVID-19 Delta Variant B.1.617.2 - Guangdong Province, China, May-June 2021

Meng Zhang  1 , Jianpeng Xiao  2 , Aiping Deng  1 , Yingtao Zhang  1 , Yali Zhuang  1 , Ting Hu  1 , Jiansen Li  1 , Hongwei Tu  1 , Bosheng Li  1 , Yan Zhou  2   3 , Jun Yuan  4 , Lei Luo  4 , Zimian Liang  5 , Youzhi Huang  6 , Guoqiang Ye  7 , Mingwei Cai  8 , Gongli Li  9 , Bo Yang  10 , Bin Xu  11 , Ximing Huang  12 , Yazun Cui  13 , Dongsheng Ren  14 , Yanping Zhang  15 , Min Kang  1   3 , Yan Li  1
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Transmission Dynamics of an Outbreak of the COVID-19 Delta Variant B.1.617.2 - Guangdong Province, China, May-June 2021

Meng Zhang et al. China CDC Wkly. .
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The key transmission parameters and transmission dynamics of an outbreak of the COVID-19 delta variant B.1.617.2 in Guangdong Province, China, 2021. (A) The epidemic curve of 167 COVID-19 cases in Guangdong Province — China, May and June, 2021; (B) The mean, median, standard deviation (SD), and the 95% confidence interval (CI) of the incubation period, generation time, and serial interval; (C) The histogram of serial intervals, and the estimated distributions of the incubation period, generation time, and serial interval; (D) The effective reproduction number (Rt) of the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic in the scenarios of strict intervention measures have been implemented in Guangdong from May 27 to June 23, 2021.
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