Correlation between travellers departing from Wuhan before the Spring Festival and subsequent spread of COVID-19 to all provinces in China
Open Access
- 17 March 2020
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Travel Medicine
- Vol. 27 (3)
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taaa036
Abstract
We found a strong correlation between travel volumes departing from Wuhan, Hubei Province before the Spring Festival and the extent of amplification of the outbreak of COVID-19 in China in 2020, with 100 top cities. Almost 70% of exportations were within cities in Hubei province.Keywords
Funding Information
- Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (LY20H150010, LY19H150004, LY18H150004)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (81901958, 81671909)
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