COVID-19: transmission in other settings
These rapid reviews aim to identify and examine evidence on transmission of COVID-19 in different settings, and interventions to reduce COVID-19 transmission.
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These evidence reviews were conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic by the COVID-19 rapid evidence service and were initially published on another website. Their content has not changed from their initial publication. Some reviews were published before October 2021 by Public Health England (PHE).
Three rapid reviews aimed to identify and examine evidence on the transmission of COVID-19 in different settings (public transport, food manufacturing and processing, and large events), while 2 reviews focused on interventions to reduce COVID-19 transmission (temperature screening, and within large events).
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The first review (initially published by PHE on 1 June 2020) searched up to 21 April 2020 for studies that examined the effectiveness of temperature screening for reducing the transmission of COVID-19, and included one systematic review (with 27 studies) and 3 simulation studies.
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The second review (initially published by PHE on 26 September 2020) searched up to 24 August 2020 for studies that examined the transmission of COVID-19 on public transport and included 4 studies (3 studies on trains and 2 studies on buses).
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The third review (initially published by PHE on 5 March 2021) searched up to 21 December 2020 for studies that examined factors contributing to the transmission of COVID-19 within food manufacturing and processing settings, and included 6 studies (3 outbreak investigations and 3 cross-sectional studies).
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The fourth review (initially made available on request by PHE in 2021) searched up to 26 February 2021 for studies that examined the transmission of COVID-19 within large events and interventions to minimise transmission, and included 7 studies.
The COVID-19 rapid evidence service also conducted a rapid systematic review of evidence for long distance airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2. This review (published by the BMJ on 29 June 2022) searched for studies published up to 19 January 2022, and included evidence from 18 studies (all outbreak investigations).