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Containing COVID-19: Implementation of Early and Moderately Stringent Social Distancing Measures Can Prevent The Need for Large-Scale Lockdowns

Annals of Global Health
Volume 86 (2020): Issue 1
By: Wee Chian Koh,  Mohammad Fathi Alikhan,  David Koh and  Justin Wong  
Open Access
|Jul 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2969 | Journal eISSN: 2214-9996
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Language: English
Published on: Jul 29, 2020
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