Testing for SARS-CoV-2 at the core of voluntary collective isolation: Lessons from the indigenous populations living in the Amazon region in Ecuador

Voluntary collective isolation has been proposed to be the best response to COVID-19 for indigenous populations. While the potential value of voluntary collective isolation is appealing, the feasibility of this approach needs empirical evidence to support it as the best response to protect indigenous communities from COVID-19. This paper describes our experience during SARS-CoV-2 surveillance among Waorani communities in the Ecuadorian Amazonian region, from June to September 2020. We found that self-isolation strategies failed to contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2 from main urban areas to remote and isolated comunities..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:105

Enthalten in:

International Journal of Infectious Diseases - 105(2021), Seite 234-235

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Esteban Ortiz-Prado [VerfasserIn]
Ismar A. Rivera-Olivero [VerfasserIn]
Byron Freire-Paspuel [VerfasserIn]
Rachel Lowe [VerfasserIn]
Tannya Lozada [VerfasserIn]
Aquiles R. Henriquez-Trujillo [VerfasserIn]
Miguel Angel Garcia-Bereguiain [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Amazonia
COVID-19
Ecuador
Indigenous people
Infectious and parasitic diseases
SARS-CoV-2

doi:

10.1016/j.ijid.2021.02.039

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

DOAJ05056286X