Journal article
The impact of public health interventions in the Nordic countries during the first year of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and evolution
S Duchene, L Featherstone, BF De Blasio, EC Holmes, J Bohlin, JHO Pettersson
Eurosurveillance | Published : 2021
Abstract
Background: Many countries have attempted to mitigate and control COVID-19 through non-pharmaceutical interventions, particularly with the aim of reducing population movement and contact. However, it remains unclear how the different control strategies impacted the local phylodynamics of the causative SARS-CoV-2 virus. Aim: We aimed to assess the duration of chains of virus transmission within individual countries and the extent to which countries exported viruses to their geographical neighbours. Methods: We analysed complete SARS-CoV-2 genomes to infer the relative frequencies of virus importation and exportation, as well as virus transmission dynamics, in countries of northern Europe. We ..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
We thank all people who have contributed SARS-CoV-2 ge-nome data to the GISAID platform. Details on specific contri-butions are available via www.gisaid.org/. JHOP is funded by the Swedish research council FORMAS (grant no: 2015-710) and VR (grant no: 2020-02593) . ECH is funded by an ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (FL170100022) . SD and LF are funded by an ARC Discovery Early Career Award awarded to SD (DE190100805) . Funding: JHOP is funded by the Swedish research council FORMAS (grant no: 2015-710) and VR (grant no: 2020-02593) . ECH is funded by an ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (FL170100022) . SD and LF are funded by an ARC Discovery Early Career Award awarded to SD (DE190100805) . The funders had no role in study design, data collection and inter-pretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.