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Cryptic spread of SARS-CoV-2 undermined targeted travel restrictions

2025-09-08

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The effectiveness of travel restrictions in mitigating the spread of novel viral variants remains understudied, particularly in regions with sparse genomic surveillance. We evaluated the efficacy of these restrictions in Western Asia, where countries sequenced less than one percent of SARS-CoV-2 cases in 2021, focusing on Iraq’s travel ban on India and the tourist travel restriction. We generated 535 SARS-CoV-2 wh...

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Literature Corpus work: af51f09d-9854-5d5a-9496-7255d982be6a
DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.29.25334701

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