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Table 3 The impact of nucleic acid screening scenarios on the number of cumulative confirmed cases

From: Modelling the pulse population-wide nucleic acid screening in mitigating and stopping COVID-19 outbreaks in China

Screening scenario

Accumulative confirmed cases

Yangzhou

Xi’an

Current screening program

584

2288

The first half screenings in Yangzhou (Screening before 22/1/1 in Xi’an)

752(+28.8%)

2380(+4.0%)

Screening every other two days

841(+44.0%)

2999(+31.1%)

The last half screenings in Yangzhou (Screening after 22/1/1 in Xi’an)

853(+46.1%)

3651(+59.6%)

No screening

1038(+77.7%)

3712(+62.2%)