COVID-19 environmental transmission and preventive public health measures

Sotiris Vardoulakis; Meru Sheel; Aparna Lal; Darren Gray

doi:10.1111/1753-6405.13033

COVID-19 environmental transmission and preventive public health measures

Sotiris Vardoulakis^*
, Meru Sheel
, Aparna Lal
, Darren Gray

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

With new COVID19 cases decreased to very low levels in most parts of Australia, although persisting in a number of hotspots ¨C mainly in the state of Victoria ¨C and increasing in some other countries such as Brazil, it is time to reflect on the effectiveness and unintended consequences of public health measures taken so far at home and overseas to prevent transmission, and to identify challenges ahead.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	333-335
Number of pages	3
Journal	Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
Volume	44
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.13033
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2020

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