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Outcomes of School Closures in Hong Kong due to the COVID-19 Pandemic

4-week school closure was initiated across the city on February 1, 2020, which was approximately 1 week after the first cases of COVID-19 were identified in Hong Kong.
School closures coincided with other stringent social distancing measures, and school closures that were initially until March 2020 were extended to April 2020.
Collectively these measures were considered to have reduced the R below 1, thus controlling the spread of the outbreak.
A preprint observational study by Cowling and colleagues noted that "social distancing measures implemented during the COVID-19 outbreak reduced community transmission by 44%, which was much greater than the estimated 10-15% reduction in influenza transmission" attributed to school closures during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in Hong Kong.
There was no data available from the papers on the effect of school closures separate from other measures.

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Updated 2020-08-08

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