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Quarantine hospitals are essential forCOVID-19 contention* *Dear Editor,The COVID-19 epidemic broke out in Wuhan, China at the end of 20191. The Chinese government has implemented control measures, including setting up special quarantine hospitals, forthe prevention and treatment of COVID-19 to mitigate its spread. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is thecause of the recent pneumonia outbreak and has since spread worldwide, posing a major threatto global public health2. In addition to the effective travel quarantine of Wuhan3, quarantinehospitals are essential for the mitigation of the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak.The Chinese health authorities notified WHO of an unknown etiology of pneumonia on December 31, 2019, which prompted health authorities to step up border surveillance. COVID-19spreads via human-to-human transmission. At the onset of the epidemic, the Wuhan MunicipalGovernment adopted a home quarantine approach to control it4; people with confirmed SARSCoV-2 infection were told to stay at home. This, however, did not curb the spread of the virus;increasing numbers of intra-family infections were reported, and it soon became evident thatthis home quarantine approach was not effective.The strategy changed from an at-home quarantine to a mandatory in-patient quarantine.Buildings were allocated for this purpose, and quarantine hospitals were quickly built. 7
Peoplewho tested positive to COVID-19 were admitted to these facilities and placed into isolation fromfamily and friends. This led to the control of intra-family infections, and became a lesson onhow to contain such a contagious pathogen. It is now accepted that all infected patients requireadmission to an isolation facility until the infectious period has passed. The fleeting return ofquarantine hospitals played a paramount role in infection control, and these hospitals have nowbeen partly decommissioned5.COVID-19 has become a global problem; for instance, it has severely impacted, amongother countries, also Iran. Indeed, a team of Chinese experts has visited Iran to provide information and guidance, and the country is now beginning to follow the Chinese quarantineroute to improve its outbreak. It is hoped that this course will contain the infection in Iran asit did in China. Public health experts worldwide should therefore take lessons from the Chineseexperience
Availability of Data and MaterialsAll data are publicly available.European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences 2020; 24: 3442-3443Corresponding Authors: Juan Chen, MD; e-mail: chenjuan564453@163.comZhan-Hui Feng, MD; e-mail: h9450203@126.comQ