Volume 27, Number 2—February 2021
Research
Effects of Social Distancing Measures during the First Epidemic Wave of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Infection, Greece
Vana Sypsa
, Sotirios Roussos, Dimitrios Paraskevis, Theodore Lytras, Sotirios Tsiodras1, and Angelos Hatzakis1
, Sotirios Roussos, Dimitrios Paraskevis, Theodore Lytras, Sotirios Tsiodras1, and Angelos Hatzakis1
Table 2
Number of contacts on a weekday during lockdown, March 31–April 7, 2020, and on the corresponding day in January 2020 before the coronavirus disease epidemic in Athens, Greece
| Covariate | Mid-January 2020 |
During lockdown |
Reduction of reported contacts, % | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participants, no. (%) | No. (%) | Mean (95% CI) | No. (%) | Mean (95% CI) | |||
| Overall |
602 (100.0) |
12,463 (100.0) |
20.7 (18.9–22.5) |
1,743 (100.0) |
2.9 (2.6–3.2) |
86.0* |
|
| Sex | |||||||
| M | 295 (49.0) | 6,218 (49.9) | 21.1 (18.3–23.9) | 934 (53.6) | 3.2 (2.7–3.6) | 85.0 | |
| F |
307 (51.0) |
6,245 (50.1) |
20.3 (18.0–22.7) |
809 (46.4) |
2.6 (2.2–3.1) |
87.1 |
|
| Age, y | |||||||
| 0–4 | 20 (3.3) | 386 (3.1) | 19.3 (12.8–25.8) | 53 (3.0) | 2.7 (2.2–3.1) | 86.3 | |
| 5–11 | 58 (9.6) | 2,020 (16.2) | 34.8 (29.1–40.6) | 168 (9.6) | 2.9 (2.6–3.2) | 91.7 | |
| 12–17 | 83 (13.8) | 2,758 (22.1) | 33.2 (28.4–38.1) | 275 (15.8) | 3.3 (2.3–4.3) | 90.0 | |
| 18–29 | 74 (12.3) | 1,316 (10.6) | 17.8 (14.4–21.1) | 361 (20.7) | 4.9 (3.1–6.7) | 72.6 | |
| 30–64 | 209 (34.7) | 4,852 (38.9) | 23.2 (19.5–26.9) | 529 (30.4) | 2.5 (2.2–2.9) | 89.1 | |
| >65 | 158 (26.3) | 1,131 (9.1) | 7.2 (5.4–8.9) | 357 (20.5) | 2.3 (1.8–2.7) | 68.4 | |
*The reduction in the reported contacts becomes 86.9% after adjusting for the age distribution of the population of Greece.
1These senior authors contributed equally to this article.
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