Quarantine for SARS-CoV-2 in Spain: How Did We Do it?
15 Pages Posted: 20 Feb 2020
Germán Ramírez Olivencia
Independent
Francisco Javier Membrillo de Novales
Hospital Central de la Defensa Gomez Ulla
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Abstract
Background: On 31 December 2019, WHO was informed of a cluster of cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology detected in Wuhan, China. A new type of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was isolated on 7 January 2020. On January 30th, WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. In this context, some western countries, including Spain, decided to evacuate its nationals from Hubei, China. Spaniards evacuated were put into quarantine for 14 days in a military hospital in Madrid.
Methods: A review of bibliography using the terms “quarantine and (MERS or coronavirus or SARS)” was conducted in Pubmed on January 31st, 2020. We collected information about criteria for selecting installations and staff, number of quarantine cases, strategy of infection control, duration of quarantine, clinical monitoring, supports, viral screening, resources, epidemiological survey, and organization of daily assessment. We describe the design of our hospital quarantine.
