Incubation period of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infections among travellers from Wuhan, China, 20–28 January 2020

By J. Backer, D. Klinkenberg, Jacco Wallinga. Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2020

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A novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is causing an outbreak of viral pneumonia that started in Wuhan, China. Using the travel history and symptom onset of 88 confirmed cases that were detected outside Wuhan in the early outbreak phase, we estimate the mean incubation period to be 6.4 days (95% credible interval: 5.6–7.7), ranging from 2.1 to 11.1 days (2.5th to 97.5th percentile). These values should help inform 2019-nCoV case definitions and appropriate quarantine durations.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Infectious Diseases, Modeling and Simulation

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• COVID-19 outbreak: Migration, effects on society, global environment and prevention (2020, background): “…with COVID-19 infection ranges from mild or non-specific signs and symptoms of acute respiratory illness such as fever, cough, fatigue, shortness of breath, to severe pneumonia with respiratory failure and septic shock, which are very similar to other coronavirus diseases (Backer et al., 2020).”