Household transmission investigation protocol for 2019-novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection

Pages
50pp
Date published
28 Feb 2020
Type
Tools, guidelines and methodologies
Keywords
Comms, media & information, Epidemics & pandemics
Organisations
World Health Organization (WHO)

The detection and spread of an emerging respiratory pathogen are accompanied by uncertainty over the key epidemiological, clinical and virological characteristics of the novel pathogen and particularly its ability to spread in the human population and its virulence (case-severity). This is the situation for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), first detected in Wuhan city, China in December 2019.