Contact Tracing in an African Megacity during COVID 19: Lessons Learned.
Contact Tracing in an African Megacity during COVID 19: Lessons Learned.
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COVID 19 期间非洲特大城市的接触者追踪：经验教训。
DOI：
10.29063/ajrh2020/v24i2s.4
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
1
通讯作者：
Amaka P Momah
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作者：
Ulla Mueller;O. Omosehin;Akinbajo E. Akinkunmi;Jaiyeola O Ayanbadejo;E. O. Somefun;Amaka P Momah
接触者追踪是识别、评估和管理接触过疾病的人以防止进一步传播的过程。这是一项重要的公共卫生工具，也是尼日利亚拉各斯州持续应对COVID-19疫情的重要组成部分。这次接触者追踪活动是在大城市进行的最大规模的活动，并利用了卫生保健系统不同阶层专业人员的专业知识。在确认一例COVID-19阳性病例后，该州的接触者追踪小组开始进行调查，确定接触者，并从最后一次接触开始每天跟踪他们14天。在开展这一大规模活动的过程中，吸取了一些可以改善接触者追踪结果的经验教训，例如需要社区动员者和权力下放，技术和宣传活动的重要性，这些经验教训可以作为其他实施者的良好做法。
Contact tracing is the process of identifying, assessing, and managing people who have been exposed to a disease to prevent onward transmission. It is an essential public health tool and a crucial component to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic response in Lagos State, Nigeria. This contact tracing exercise is the largest one to be conducted in the megacity and is leveraging on the expertise of professionals across different strata of the health care system. Following the confirmation of a positive case of COVID-19; the State's contact tracing team commenced investigations by identifying contacts and following them up daily for 14 days from the last point of exposure. In the process of conducting this large-scale exercise, several lessons that can improve contact tracing outcomes such as the need for community mobilizers and decentralization, the importance of technology and communication campaigns were learnt and can serve as good practice for other implementers.