Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection among Returnees to Japan from Wuhan, China, 2020

In early 2020, Japan repatriated 566 nationals from China. Universal laboratory testing and 14-day monitoring of returnees detected 12 cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection; initial screening results were negative for 5. Common outcomes were remaining asymptomatic (n = 4...

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Published inEmerging infectious diseases Vol. 26; no. 7; pp. 1596 - 1600
Main Authors Arima, Yuzo, Kutsuna, Satoshi, Shimada, Tomoe, Suzuki, Motoi, Suzuki, Tadaki, Kobayashi, Yusuke, Tsuchihashi, Yuuki, Nakamura, Haruna, Matsumoto, Kaoru, Takeda, Asuka, Kadokura, Keisuke, Sato, Tetsuro, Yahata, Yuichiro, Nakajima, Noriko, Tobiume, Minoru, Takayama, Ikuyo, Kageyama, Tsutomu, Saito, Shinji, Nao, Naganori, Matsui, Tamano, Sunagawa, Tomimasa, Hasegawa, Hideki, Hayakawa, Kayoko, Tsuzuki, Shinya, Asai, Yusuke, Suzuki, Tetsuya, Ide, Satoshi, Nakamura, Keiji, Moriyama, Yuki, Kinoshita, Noriko, Akiyama, Yutaro, Miyazato, Yusuke, Nomoto, Hidetoshi, Nakamoto, Takato, Ota, Masayuki, Saito, Sho, Ishikane, Masahiro, Morioka, Shinichiro, Yamamoto, Kei, Ujiie, Mugen, Terada, Mari, Sugiyama, Haruhito, Kokudo, Norihiro, Ohmagari, Norio, Ohnishi, Makoto, Wakita, Takaji
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.07.2020
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Betacoronavirus
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Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection Among Returnees to Japan from Wuhan, China, 2020
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Asymptomatic infections
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Summary:In early 2020, Japan repatriated 566 nationals from China. Universal laboratory testing and 14-day monitoring of returnees detected 12 cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection; initial screening results were negative for 5. Common outcomes were remaining asymptomatic (n = 4) and pneumonia (n = 6). Overall, screening performed poorly.
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Members of the COVID-19 response team: Akira Ainai, Minetaro Arita, Tomoko Arita, Hideki Asanuma, Seiichiro Fujisaki, Itsuki Hamamoto, Yuichi Harada, Shinichiro Hirai, Shun Iida, Yoshiyuki Ishii, Shigeyuki Itamura, Naoko Iwata-Yoshikawa, Takayuki Kanno, Harutaka Katano, Fumihiro Kato, Hirofumi Kato, Hiroshi Katoh, Minoru Kidokoro, Noriko Kishida, Osamu Kotani, Toru Kubota, Iwao Kukimoto, Madoka Kuramitsu, Tomoko Kuwahara, Shutoku Matsuyama, Seiichiro Mori, Yoshio Mori, Koichi Murakami, Tsutomu Murakami, Noriyo Nagata, Seishiro Naito, Kazuya Nakamura, Yuichiro Nakatsu, Mina Nakauchi, Eri Nobusawa, Kiyoko Okamoto, Kazu Okuma, Noriyuki Otsuki, Masumichi Saito, Koji Sakai, Kouji Sakai, Masafumi Sakata, Kaori Sano, Kayoko Sato, Yuko Sato, Fumio Seki, Noriko Shimasaki, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Masayuki Shirakura, Kazuya Shirato, Kenji Someya, Ryosuke Suzuki, Yasushi Suzuki, Maino Tahara, Hitoshi Takahashi, Kenta Takahashi, Emi Takashita, Makoto Takeda, Takamasa Takeuchi, Michiko Tanaka, Kenta Tezuka, Kenzo Tokunaga, Yuji Wada, Kana Watanabe, Shinji Watanabe, Aya Zamoto-Niikura, (National Institute of Infectious Diseases); Tomoko Date (National Center for Global Health and Medicine); Takashi Chiba, Mami Nagashima, Kenji Sadamasu, Kazuhisa Yoshimura (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health); Manami Yanagawa (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare).
ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059
1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid2607.200994