Testing the repatriated for SARS-Cov2: Should laboratory-based quarantine replace traditional quarantine?
An ongoing epidemic of respiratory diseases caused by a novel coronavirus (COVID 2019, SARS-CoV2) started in Wuhan, Hubei, in China at the end of December 2019. The French government decided to repatriate the 337 French nationals living in Wuhan and place them in quarantine in their home country. We...
| Published in: | Travel Medicine & Infectious Disease Vol. 34 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Mar2020
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