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The Serial Interval of COVID-19 in Korea: 1,567 Pairs of Symptomatic Cases from Contact Tracing

Authors
Hong, KwanYum, SujinKim, JeehyunChun, Byung Chul
Issue Date
28-12월-2020
Publisher
KOREAN ACAD MEDICAL SCIENCES
Keywords
Coronavirus; COVID-19; Contact Tracing; Epidemiology; Disease Transmission; Serial Interval
Citation
JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE, v.35, no.50
Indexed
SCIE
SCOPUS
KCI
Journal Title
JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE
Volume
35
Number
50
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/50756
DOI
10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e435
ISSN
1011-8934
Abstract
Although coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an ongoing pandemic, the mean serial interval was measured differently across nations. Through the Korean national COVID-19 contact tracing system, we were able to investigate personal contacts in all symptomatic cases in Korea from January 20 to August 3, 2020. The mean serial interval was calculated by the duration between the symptom onset of the infector and infectee, and became shorter after the case definition changed to include not-imported cases in Korea on February 20, 2020. The mean serial interval before and after this fifth case definition was 6.12 and 3.93 days based on the infectors' symptom onset date, respectively, and 4.02 days in total with the median of 3 days. Older age and women lead to longer serial intervals.
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