Author: Lhopitallier, Loic; Brahier, Thomas; Opota, Onya; Kronenberg, Andreas; Mueller, Yolanda; Hügli, Olivier; Jaton, Katia; Boillat-Blanco, Noémie
Title: No evidence of SARS-CoV-2 circulation before the identification of the first Swiss SARS-CoV-2 case. Cord-id: hayrhwok Document date: 2020_7_16
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Snippet: • We performed retrospectively RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 on frozen naso-pharyngeal swabs of patients with lower respiratory tract infections collected in Western Switzerland between November 2019 and March 2020. • We did not identify any case before the first officially diagnosed cases; • This may suggest that the targeted screening approach was adequate when faced with a difficulties in upscaling testing capacity.
Document: • We performed retrospectively RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 on frozen naso-pharyngeal swabs of patients with lower respiratory tract infections collected in Western Switzerland between November 2019 and March 2020. • We did not identify any case before the first officially diagnosed cases; • This may suggest that the targeted screening approach was adequate when faced with a difficulties in upscaling testing capacity.
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