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PMC:7058650 / 2745-5911 JSONTXT 10 Projects

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T15 0-12 Sentence denotes Introduction
T16 13-199 Sentence denotes On 31 December 2019, local hospitals in Wuhan, China reported that they had detected a series of cases of Novel Coronavirus-infected pneumonia to the World Health Organization (WHO) [1].
T17 200-384 Sentence denotes On 7 January, the causative agent was identified by the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention as a Novel Coronavirus and designated ‘2019-nCoV’ and finally as "SARS-COV-2".
T18 385-512 Sentence denotes Epidemiological investigations identified the local Huanan seafood wet market as the location of an initial exposure event [2].
T19 513-614 Sentence denotes The market was closed on 31 December 2019 [2, 3] and wildlife market activity was banned countrywide.
T20 615-812 Sentence denotes Despite travel restrictions to and from the city imposed by Chinese authorities to limit the potential dispersion of the virus beyond the region [4, 5], international cases continue to be reported.
T21 813-1005 Sentence denotes As of 5 February 2020, there were 24 554 confirmed Novel Coronavirus-infected pneumonia (COVID-19) cases in 27 countries or territories, of which 24 363 (99.2%) were within mainland China [6].
T22 1006-1131 Sentence denotes The locations of internationally imported cases are consistent with risk models generated from flight data out of Wuhan city.
T23 1132-1350 Sentence denotes Transmission from mildly symptomatic (i.e. cough, lethargy, myalgia) infected individuals was identified early in the course of this outbreak, with human-to-human transmission detected in international case series [7].
T24 1351-1621 Sentence denotes The timing of this outbreak around the lunar new year widely celebrated in China coincides with a period of highest annual human movement patterns in the region and between China and globally [8], increasing the potential for rapid geographic dispersal of the infection.
T25 1622-1867 Sentence denotes Further, recent investment in the African continent by the Chinese state and private investors has led to an increasing Chinese diaspora [9] and a greater number of direct and indirect flight connections to the African continent from China [10].
T26 1868-1946 Sentence denotes There are few studies available on global risk of 2019-nCoV spread [4, 5, 11].
T27 1947-2111 Sentence denotes Bogoch et al. [5] and Chinazzi et al. [11] estimated the risk of importation of 2019-nCoV from major Chinese cities to the most frequent international destinations.
T28 2112-2207 Sentence denotes Wu et al. estimated the risk of international spread compared to domestic outbound flights [4].
T29 2208-2343 Sentence denotes These articles do not model the cumulative risk of importation of 2019-nCoV in a country and instead focus on specific points of entry.
T30 2344-2628 Sentence denotes Here, we considered all the end destinations of flights from four important cities of China involving 168 countries/territories around the world and calculated the total risk of transmission into a country by aggregating the risk associated with all the entry airports of the country.
T31 2629-2784 Sentence denotes We further looked in more detail at the risk to Africa where the health infrastructure would be challenged tracking a new epidemic across its 54 countries.
T32 2785-3166 Sentence denotes The aim of the current study was to explore the effect of sustained transmission from the four Chinese cities of Wuhan, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou on international disease importation risk to 168 countries and territories, with a specific focus on Africa where current levels of healthcare infrastructure could provide a significant challenge for managing this novel epidemic.