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Travel restrictions must be used in a targeted way to be effective at controlling local COVID-19 transmission: study – Medical Xpress

The measures may have limited impact on the epidemic within individual countries except those with low levels of the virus or that have strong travel links with…

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The measures may have limited impact on the epidemic within individual countries except those with low levels of the virus or that have strong travel links with countries experiencing high rates of infection.
The new study also suggests that travel restrictions can be effective in countries close to a tipping point for exponential growthwith a reproduction number, or R number, between 0.95 and 1.05 -but not in those where it is already spreading rapidly among the population.
Every country in the…

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