TY - JOUR
T1 - The emergence and transmission of COVID-19 in European countries, 2019–2020: a comprehensive review of timelines, cases and containment
AU - Al-Salem, Waleed
AU - Moraga, Paula
AU - Ghazi, Hani
AU - Madad, Syra
AU - Hotez, Peter J
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-11-24
Acknowledgements: We acknowledge Umm Al Qura University for their support and encouragement.
PY - 2021/7/31
Y1 - 2021/7/31
N2 - When it emerged in late 2019, COVID-19 was carried via travelers to Germany, France and Italy, where freedom of movement accelerated its transmission throughout Europe. However, effective non-pharmaceutical interventions introduced by European governments led to containment of the rapid increase in cases within European nations. Electronic searches were performed to obtain the number of confirmed cases, incident rates and non-pharmaceutical government measures for each European country. The spread and impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions throughout Europe were assessed and visualized. Specifically, heatmaps were used to represent the number of confirmed cases and incident rates for each of the countries over time. In addition, maps were created showing the number of confirmed cases and incident rates in Europe on three different dates (15 March, 15 April and 15 May 2020), which allowed us to assess the geographic and temporal patterns of the disease.
AB - When it emerged in late 2019, COVID-19 was carried via travelers to Germany, France and Italy, where freedom of movement accelerated its transmission throughout Europe. However, effective non-pharmaceutical interventions introduced by European governments led to containment of the rapid increase in cases within European nations. Electronic searches were performed to obtain the number of confirmed cases, incident rates and non-pharmaceutical government measures for each European country. The spread and impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions throughout Europe were assessed and visualized. Specifically, heatmaps were used to represent the number of confirmed cases and incident rates for each of the countries over time. In addition, maps were created showing the number of confirmed cases and incident rates in Europe on three different dates (15 March, 15 April and 15 May 2020), which allowed us to assess the geographic and temporal patterns of the disease.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/670362
UR - https://academic.oup.com/inthealth/advance-article/doi/10.1093/inthealth/ihab037/6333378
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85115901132&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/inthealth/ihab037
DO - 10.1093/inthealth/ihab037
M3 - Article
C2 - 34333650
SN - 1876-3413
VL - 13
SP - 383
EP - 398
JO - International Health
JF - International Health
IS - 5
ER -
