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. 2022 Apr 20;48(2):e20220087.
doi: 10.36416/1806-3756/e20220087. eCollection 2022.

Country-specific lockdown measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on tuberculosis control: a global study

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Giovanni Battista Migliori  1 , Pei Min Thong  2 , Jan-Willem Alffenaar  3   4   5 , Justin Denholm  6   7 , Marina Tadolini  8   9 , Fatma Alyaquobi  10 , Seif Al-Abri  11 , François-Xavier Blanc  12 , Danilo Buonsenso  13 , Jeremiah Chakaya  14   15 , Jin-Gun Cho  4   16 , Luigi Ruffo Codecasa  17 , Edvardas Danila  18 , Raquel Duarte  19 , Rada Dukpa  20 , José-María García-García  21 , Gina Gualano  22 , Xhevat Kurhasani  23   24 , Katerina Manika  25 , Fernanda Carvalho de Queiroz Mello  26 , Kristin Pahl  27 , Adrian Rendon  28 , Giovanni Sotgiu  29 , Mahamadou Bassirou Souleymane  30 , Tania A Thomas  31 , Simon Tiberi  32   33 , Heinke Kunst  32   33 , Zarir F Udwadia  34 , Delia Goletti  22 , Rosella Centis  1 , Lia D'Ambrosio  35 , Denise Rossato Silva  36
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Country-specific lockdown measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on tuberculosis control: a global study

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Giovanni Battista Migliori et al. J Bras Pneumol. .

Abstract
in English, Portuguese

The objective of this study was to describe country-specific lockdown measures and tuberculosis indicators collected during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data on lockdown/social restrictions (compulsory face masks and hand hygiene; international and local travel restrictions; restrictions to family visits, and school closures) were collected from 24 countries spanning five continents. The majority of the countries implemented multiple lockdowns with partial or full reopening. There was an overall decrease in active tuberculosis, drug-resistant tuberculosis, and latent tuberculosis cases. Although national lockdowns were effective in containing COVID-19 cases, several indicators of tuberculosis were affected during the pandemic.

O objetivo deste estudo foi descrever as medidas de confinamento específicas de cada país e os indicadores de tuberculose coletados durante o primeiro ano da pandemia de COVID-19. Dados referentes a confinamento/restrições sociais (uso obrigatório de máscaras faciais e higiene obrigatória das mãos; restrições a viagens internacionais e locais; restrições a visitas familiares e fechamento das escolas) foram coletados de 24 países em cinco continentes. A maioria dos países implantou múltiplos confinamentos, com reabertura parcial ou total. Houve uma redução geral dos casos de tuberculose ativa, tuberculose resistente e tuberculose latente. Embora os confinamentos nacionais tenham sido eficazes na contenção dos casos de COVID-19, vários indicadores de tuberculose foram afetados durante a pandemia.

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