The global response: How cities and provinces around the globe tackled COVID-19 outbreaks in 2021—Authors' reply
The Lancet regional health Southeast Asia
; 2023.
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in English
| EuropePMC | ID: covidwho-2264324
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Third, regarding the inclusion of RT-PCR and RATs in the laboratory tests, as mentioned in the text (page 9 of manuscript), "All cities/provinces except Tokyo (Table 5), relied on using mass testing strategies comprising both rapid antigen tests and standard RT-PCRs.” The number of laboratory tests was gathered from official websites of relevant national reporting authorities. As mentioned in the footnotes of the table, the WHO "had previously suggested a positivity rate of around 3-12% as a general benchmark of adequate testing, along with recommending that test positivity should remain at 5% or lower for 14 days before regions reopen." The point raised by the Ngo et al., has already been addressed in the manuscript.
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The Lancet regional health Southeast Asia
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2023
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