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COVID-19 Contact Tracing During First Delta Wave, Lebanon, 2021

Maryo Baakliny, Julia Naim, Aya Hage, Tatiana Tohmeh, Reem Abdel Malak, Joelle Bassila, Hawraa Sweidan, Mohamad Zein, Darine Wehbeh, Kassem Chaalan, Lina Chaito, Nada Ghosn

Background: On the 11th March, the WHO has declared COVID-19 pandemic. Officially, the virus was introduced in Lebanon on the 21st February 2020. Since then, the national curve has drawn several waves. From July to September 2021, Lebanon has experienced the first delta wave. As part of the investigation, contact tracing was enhanced to limit virus transmission. The objective is to describe close tracing approach and profile of close contacts identified during the first delta wave.

Methods: COVID-19 surveillance is integrated within the national communicable diseases surveillance. The case definitions are adopted from WHO guides. Laboratories report positive cases on daily basis to the Ministry of Public Health, on DHIS2 platform directly or indirectly via excel files importation. Once reported, case investigation is initiated. It includes contact tracing with: 1) identification of close contacts, 2) advice on quarantine and self- monitoring, 3) contact testing. Referral to field testing is made available free of charge for close contacts. Collected data is updated on DHIS2 platform. Later, data is cleaned and analyzed to generate the daily report including description of close contacts. The report is shared with decision makers, professionals, media and public.

Results: From week 2021W27 to week 2021W40, 85490 cases were reported. Case investigation rate reached 78.8% of the cases were investigated within 24 hours. 66.5% of investigated cases shared lists of contacts, with 3.6 as average number of contacts per case.

We identified a total of 161805 close contacts, 95% were from family members, 71% were not vaccinated and 10% had prior COVID-19 infection.

As for contact testing, 65% had RT-PCR test upon investigation, with 32% positive result. Furthermore, 19205 were referred and tested via field testing, with 25% positivity rate. Of all identified contacts, the reported positive tests reached 56,904 representing 35.2% of all contacts.

Conclusion: During community transmission and mitigation strategy, contact tracing contributes to increase awareness to the contacts and importance to abide to quarantine measures and thus to slow down the virus circulation.

Current close contacts are characterized with new profile of prior infection, vaccination history and testing behavior. There is need to adapt the quarantine measures to close contacts based on their profile, and to ensure easy access to free testing.

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