Summary Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) started as an epidemic in Wuhan in 2019,
and has since become a pandemic. Groups from China identified and sequenced the virus …

Without modern medical management and vaccines, the severity of the Coronavirus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) …

Stringent COVID-19 control measures were imposed in Wuhan between January 23 and
April 8, 2020. Estimates of the prevalence of infection following the release of restrictions …

Suppressing infections of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
will probably require the rapid identification and isolation of individuals infected with the …

Environmental surveillance of surface contamination is an unexplored tool for understanding
transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in community settings. We conducted longitudinal swab …

Without a cure, vaccine, or proven long-term immunity against SARS-CoV-2, test-trace-and-
isolate (TTI) strategies present a promising tool to contain its spread. For any TTI strategy …

Recent reports suggest that 10 to 30% of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) infected patients are asymptomatic and that viral shedding may occur before …

In an attempt to reduce the infection rate of the COrona VIrus Disease-19 (Covid-19)
countries around the world have echoed the exigency for an economical, accessible, point …

Background To accompany the lifting of COVID-19 lockdown measures, Luxembourg
implemented a mass screening (MS) programme. The first phase coincided with an early …

Pooling multiple swab samples before RNA extraction and real-time reverse transcription
polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis has been proposed as a strategy to reduce …