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

• Published in: Emerging 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
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.07.2020; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Adult; Age; Aged; Air charter services; Asymptomatic; Asymptomatic infections; Betacoronavirus; bias; China; Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Disease transmission; Dispatch; Epidemiology; Female; Fever; Health aspects; Hospitalization; Hospitals; Humans; Illnesses; Infections; Infectious diseases; Japan - epidemiology; Laboratory tests; Male; Medical research; Middle Aged; Pandemics; Patients; Pneumonia; Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology; Polymerase Chain Reaction; prevalence; Public health; Quarantine; R&D; Research & development; SARS-CoV-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection Among Returnees to Japan from Wuhan, China, 2020; Travel; China; Japan; Wuhan China; viruses; Asymptomatic infections; zoonoses; respiratory infections; COVID-19; prevalence; SARS-CoV-2; pneumonia; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; bias; 2019 novel coronavirus disease; coronavirus disease; quarantine

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...