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| Title: | Age, source, and future risk of COVID-19 infections in two settings of Hong Kong and Singapore | Authors: | Zhu, S Tao, J Gao, H He, D |
Issue Date: | 2020 | Source: | BMC research notes, 2020, v. 13, no. 1, 336 | Abstract: | OBJECTIVE: To explore and compare the age, source and future risk of COVID-19 infection in Hong Kong SAR China and Singapore as of March 5, 2020. RESULTS: We find significant difference in age patterns of confirmed cases in these 2 localities early in the pandemic. CONCLUSION: We highlight the potential importance of population age structure in confirmed cases, which should be considered in evaluation of the effectiveness of control effort in different localities. |
Keywords: | Age structure COVID-19 Hong kong Singapore |
Publisher: | BioMed Central | Journal: | BMC research notes | ISSN: | 1756-0500 | DOI: | 10.1186/s13104-020-05178-z | Rights: | © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. The following publication Zhu, S., Tao, J., Gao, H. et al. Age, source, and future risk of COVID-19 infections in two settings of Hong Kong and Singapore. BMC Res Notes 13, 336 (2020), is available at https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05178-z |
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