Successful control of COVID-19 outbreak through tracing, testing, and isolation: Lessons learned from the outbreak control efforts made in a metropolitan city of South Korea

• Main Authors: Seung-Ji Kang (Author), Sooyeon Kim (Author), Kyung-Hwa Park (Author), Sook In Jung (Author), Min-Ho Shin (Author), Sun-Seog Kweon (Author), Hyang Park (Author), Seong-Woo Choi (Author), Eungyu Lee (Author), So Yeon Ryu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The first surge of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases began on June 27, 2020 in Gwangju metropolitan city, located in the southwestern part of South Korea, with a population of 1,501,000. Local governments and the Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention immediately started an epidemi...