Publication date: Jun 30, 2026
Public health and social measures (PHSMs) are key interventions during pandemics. This study quantifies temporal changes in daily interpersonal contacts associated with PHSM implementation and their potential impact on disease transmission across different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong from 2021 to 2023. We recruited 7,053 individuals from the general population and 3,462 participants from selected high-contact groups between September 2021 and December 2023. The study period spanned the infection-nacEFve phase before 2022 through the city’s fifth wave of COVID-19 (January-April 2022) driven by the Omicron BA. 2 variant. Reported cumulative incidence was
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| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| April | Age-assortative mixing |
| Covid | Contact matrix |
| Pandemic | COVID-19 |
| Recruited | Social contact pattern |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 |
| disease | MESH | infection |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Etodolac |
| pathway | REACTOME | Reproduction |
| disease | MESH | included |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Aspartame |
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