Impact of a Nationwide Lockdown on SARS-CoV-2 Transmissibility, Italy
Giorgio Guzzetta
1, Flavia Riccardo
1, Valentina Marziano, Piero Poletti, Filippo Trentini, Antonino Bella, Xanthi Andrianou, Martina Del Manso, Massimo Fabiani, Stefania Bellino, Stefano Boros, Alberto Mateo Urdiales, Maria Fenicia Vescio, Andrea Piccioli, Silvio Brusaferro, Giovanni Rezza, Patrizio Pezzotti
3, Marco Ajelli
3 , Stefano Merler
3, and
COVID-19 Working Group,2
Author affiliations: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy (G. Guzzetta, V. Marziano, P. Poletti, F. Trentini, S. Merler); Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy (F. Riccardo, A. Bella, X. Andrianou, M. Del Manso, M. Fabiani, S. Bellino, S. Boros, A. Mateo Urdiales, M.F. Vescio, A. Piccioli, S. Brusaferro, G. Rezza, P. Pezzotti); Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus (X. Andrianou); European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden (M. Del Manso, A. Mateo Urdiales); Indiana University School of Public Health, Bloomington, Indiana, USA (M. Ajelli); Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (M. Ajelli)
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Figure 2. Distribution of the mean net reproduction numbers for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in 100 selected provinces in Italy. Green lines indicate average value of Rt, weighted by the number of reported cases by each province. Gray line indicates epidemic threshold.
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