Testing for SARS-CoV-2 at the core of voluntary collective isolation: Lessons from the indigenous populations living in the Amazon region in Ecuador

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Ismar A. Rivera-Olivero¹  Aquiles R. Henriquez-Trujillo²  Tannya Lozada³  Esteban Ortiz-Prado⁴  Rachel Lowe⁴  Miguel Angel Garcia-Bereguiain⁴  Byron Freire-Paspuel⁴ 

[1] Corresponding authors.;Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom;;Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases and Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene &One Health Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de las Americas, Quito, Ecuador;

关键词: Amazonia;    Ecuador;    SARS-CoV-2;    COVID-19;    Indigenous people;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Voluntary collective isolation has been proposed to be the best response to COVID-19 for indigenous populations. While the potential value of voluntary collective isolation is appealing, the feasibility of this approach needs empirical evidence to support it as the best response to protect indigenous communities from COVID-19. This paper describes our experience during SARS-CoV-2 surveillance among Waorani communities in the Ecuadorian Amazonian region, from June to September 2020. We found that self-isolation strategies failed to contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2 from main urban areas to remote and isolated comunities.

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