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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3569</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.SP195</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Contact Tracing of COVID -19 Cases for Early Detection of Infection in Tertiary Care Hospital, Pune&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>V</surname><given-names>Kendre</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>P</surname><given-names>Tambe Muralidhar</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>U</surname><given-names>Jadhav Yallappa</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>C</surname><given-names>Shelke Sangita</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>S</surname><given-names>Tapre Vinay</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>N</surname><given-names>Lakade Rajesh</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>30</day><month>03</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>rn</volume><issue>ch</issue><fpage>81</fpage><lpage>85</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on 30th Jan 2020 and later declared it as pandemic on 11th March 2020. Community surveillance plays a significant role in the prevention of the spread of disease. The government of India__ampersandsignrsquo;s focus has been on community surveillance activities which mainly comprises contact tracing and quarantine. Objective: To explore high risk and low-risk contacts of confirmed COVID-19 patients admitted to a Tertiary Care Center, Pune. To find out the secondary attack rate of COVID-19 cases and To study demographic characters of COVID-19 cases. Methods: Observational cross-sectional study was done in the Tertiary Care Center, where isolation of suspected cases and management of COVID-19 positive patients was done. Details about patients such as age, sex, residence, history of contact with COVID-19 patient, history of travel to COVID-19 affected case was taken by taking the interview. Data were analyzed by Epi-info version 7.2.1.0. The statistical Tests used was the chi-square test. Results: Male patients were more as compared to females. There was a significant association between co-morbidities and deaths of COVID-19 patients. Family members were the most affected contacts of cases(63.16%). 23 families have secondary cases in their homes. The highest secondary attack rate was found to be 83.33% in 2 families. Conclusion: Family members were the most affected contacts of cases (63.16%) followed by health care workers. There was no significant difference between deaths among male and female cases. 23 families(19%) had secondary cases in their homes. The secondary attack rate ranged from 9% to 83.33%, with a median of 24.26%.&#13;
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