id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-316970-n2dly3oa Kerbaj, Jad COVID-19: The New Caledonia experience 2020-05-16 .txt text/plain 1444 115 68 Every passenger with fever or cough was hospitalized in the Centre Hospitalier Territorial CHT (the main island's hospital, reference center in Infectious Diseases) and tested by SARS-CoV-2 reverse transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR). On February 10, screening by SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR started for all patients hospitalized for an Influenza like illness or a severe acute respiratory infection (SARI). All close contact to person confirmed with COVID-19 infection were isolated in a quarantine facility for 14 days. Iceland has quickly considered all travels outside the island as high risk, has done a large population screening and important tracking of SARS-A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 6 CoV-2 infections, associating these measures with quarantine, self-isolation and social distancing (8) . The surveillance, quarantine measures, the hospitalization of all detected COVID-19 positive patients and the rapid lockdown had probably an impact on stopping the spread. ./cache/cord-316970-n2dly3oa.txt ./txt/cord-316970-n2dly3oa.txt