id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-304317-ad3tct5b Pinotti, Francesco Lessons learnt from 288 COVID-19 international cases: importations over time, effect of interventions, underdetection of imported cases 2020-02-25 .txt text/plain 4521 295 58 Outside China, affected countries are facing importations of cases and clusters of local transmission 1, 4, 5 Border controls have been reinforced in many countries, and active surveillance has been intensified to rapidly detect and isolate importations, trace contacts and isolate suspect cases 6,7 . We modeled the total number of imported cases out of China over time accounting for date of travel, delay in reporting, and source areas. Fifteen cases were classified as both imported and local transmissions, since they contracted the infection outside China and traveled to a different country once infected (ES01, ES02, GB03, GB04, GB05, GB06, GB07, GB08, KR12, KR16, KR17, KR19, MY09, TH20, TH21 in our database 16 ). 24.20027326 doi: medRxiv preprint The reduced volume of exported cases worldwide following the travel ban may have given countries the time to prepare and strengthen their surveillance systems, as signaled by a reduction of the interval from travel date to detection over time. ./cache/cord-304317-ad3tct5b.txt ./txt/cord-304317-ad3tct5b.txt