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Social distancing measures for COVID-19 are changing winter season
  1. Alessandro Amaddeo1,
  2. Carolina Cason2,
  3. Giorgio Cozzi1,
  4. Luca Ronfani3,
  5. Manola Comar2
  1. 1 Emergency Department, Institute for Maternal and Child Health—IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
  2. 2 SSD of Advanced Microbiology Diagnosis and Translational Research, Institute for Maternal and Child Health—IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
  3. 3 Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health Research Unit, Institute for Maternal and Child Health—IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy
  1. Correspondence to Dr Alessandro Amaddeo, Emergency Department, Institute for Maternal and Child Health—IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy; alessandro.amaddeo{at}burlo.trieste.it

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2021-322004

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    Health authorities worldwide have adopted measures of social distancing and movement restrictions, in addition to other public health measures to reduce exposure and to suppress interhuman SARS-CoV-2 transmission. In Italy, a national lockdown with school closure was introduced from March to May 2020. From November 2020, Italy has been divided into zones according to regional epidemiological data, with primary schools reopened, associated with the mandatory use of face masks and different levels of social distance measures. For children with symptoms suggestive of COVID-19, the surveillance mechanism for the control of SARS-CoV-2 infection is based on the performance of a real-time PCR on a nasopharyngeal swab. A diagnostic test has been introduced at the tertiary-level university hospital, …

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    • Contributors AA and MC designed the study. AA, CC, GC and MC collected and analysed the data. All the authors contributed equally to the interpretation of the results and to the writing of the manuscript.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.