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Effectiveness of international border control measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative synthesis of published systematic reviews

Unknown authors · 2023
hash_id: 14dedb9105e7796104e39d84c06fca9f7297ff61cb6b249cccb5d76592b46cea · DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2023.0134

The effectiveness of international border control measures during the COVID-19 pandemic is not well understood. Using a narrative synthesis approach to published systematic reviews, we synthesized the evidence from both modelling and observational studies on the effects of border control measures on domestic transmission of the virus. We find that symptomatic screening measures were not particularly effective, but that diagnostic-based screening methods were more effective at identifying infected travellers. Targeted travel restrictions levied against travellers from Wuhan were likely temporarily effective but insufficient to stop the exportation of the virus to the rest of the world. Quarantine of inbound travellers was also likely effective at reducing transmission, but only with relatively long quarantine periods, and came with important economic and …

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