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DAB calls for entry ban on non-residents The pro-government DAB Party has urged the government to impose more stringent measures on people coming in from the mainland, due to the deadly coronavirus outbreak, RTHK reports.They said all non-residents should be banned from crossing the border, unless they can provide proof of their health.It said Hong Kong residents returning from the mainland should be quarantined at home for two weeks, and possibly made to wear tracking bracelets during this period.T... {open}

 

Joan L. Robinson, Bonita E. Lee, Sushma Kothapalli, William R. Craig, Julie D. Fox, Use of Throat Swab or Saliva Specimens for Detection of Respiratory Viruses in Children, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 46, Issue 7, 1 April 2008, Pages e61–e64, https://doi.org/10.1086/529386 Background. Nasopharyngeal (NP) specimens are commonly used for the detection of respiratory viruses, but throat and saliva specimens are easier to obtain. The objective of this study was to compare the viral yield of dir... {open}

 

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In public health, contact tracing is the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person ("contacts") and subsequent collection of further information about these contacts. By tracing the contacts of infected individuals, testing them for infection, treating the infected and tracing their contacts in turn, public health aims to reduce infections in the population. Diseases for which contact tracing is commonly performed for include tuberculosis, vaccine-pre... {open}

 

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