Title of article :
Patients with COVID‑19 and Disguising on Travel History: A Challenge in Disease Screening
Author/Authors :
Joob, Beuy Sanitation1 Medical Academic Center, Bangkok, Thailand , Wiwanitkit, Viroj Department of Community Medicine - Dr DY Patil University, Pune, India
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Abstract :
COVID‑19 is a new emerging coronavirus infection from China which already spread and became public health concern in many countries.[1] Thailand is a country in Southeast Asia in which the disease first appeared outside China.[2] For disease control, the fever screening and history taking on traveling to risk area is the general primary for screening for disease. In the previous report, there is a problem in using temperature screening for COVID‑19. Here, the authors would like to share an observation on COVID0‑19 in Thailand with special focus on the use of travel history. It is found that disguising on travel history is a big problem that results ineffectiveness of using fever and travel history screening as preventive tool against COVID‑19.
Keywords :
Disease Screening , Patients with COVID‑19 , Disguising on Travel History
Journal title :
International Journal of Preventive Medicine (IJPM)
Serial Year :
2020
Record number :
2609978
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