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Correction to: BMC Infect Dis. 21, 485 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06204-6
Following publication of the original article [1], the authors identified errors in the abstract, article body, Fig. 1. Fig 5. and Table S6.
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The typo “24%” in the 1st page, 3rd paragraph, should be written as ‘25%’.
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The typo “547 and 642 cases” in the 3rd page, left-hand column, 3rd paragraph, should be written as ‘555 and 634’.
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The typo “65 clusters”,“36.9%”, “26.1%”, and “10.7%” in the 3rd page, right-hand column, 3rd paragraph, should be written as ‘67 clusters’, ‘35.8%’, ‘25.4%’, and ‘10.5%’, respectively.
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The typo “758” in the 3rd page, right-hand column, 5th paragraph, and “22.5%” in the 4th page, left-hand column, 1st paragraph should be written as ‘916’, and ‘25.3%’.
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The typo “708 infector-infectee pairs”,“345 pairs”, and “363 pairs” in the Fig. 3. legend, in the 5th page, left-hand column, should be written as ‘698 infector-infectee pairs’, ‘341 pairs’, and ‘357 pairs’, respectively.
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The typo “547 imported cases” and “642 imported cases” in the 5th page, right-hand column, 1st paragraph, should be written as ‘555 imported cases’ and ‘634 imported cases’, respectively.
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The corrected Fig. 1 is given below.
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The corrected Fig. 5 is given below
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The corrected Table S6 is given below.
First epidemic wave | Second epidemic wave | |||||
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Age group (years) | No. of unlinked cases | No. of confirmed cases | Proportion of unlinked (95% CI†), % | No. of unlinked cases | No. of confirmed cases | Proportion of unlinked (95% CI†), % |
0–19 | 15 | 100 | 15.0 (9.3–23.3) | 26 | 150 | 17.3 (12.1–24.2) |
20–39 | 124 | 475 | 26.1 (22.4–30.2) | 117 | 539 | 21.7 (18.4–25.4) |
40–59 | 113 | 576 | 19.6 (16.6–23.1) | 133 | 551 | 24.1 (20.8–27.9) |
60–79 | 60 | 261 | 23.0 (18.3–28.5) | 136 | 570 | 23.9 (20.5–27.5) |
≥80 | 10 | 49 | 20.4 (11.5–33.6) | 16 | 93 | 17.2 (10.9–26.1) |
NA | 4 | 22 | 18.2 (7.3–38.5) | 162 | 427 | 37.9 (33.5–42.6) |
Overall | 326 | 1483 | 22.0 (19.9–24.2) | 590 | 2330 | 25.3 (23.6–27.1) |
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Ryu S, Ali ST, Noh E, Kim D, Lau EHY, Cowling BJ. Transmission dynamics and control of two epidemic waves of SARS-CoV-2 in South Korea. BMC Infect Dis. 2021;21:485. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06204-6.
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Ryu, S., Ali, S.T., Noh, E. et al. Correction to: Transmission dynamics and control of two epidemic waves of SARS-CoV-2 in South Korea. BMC Infect Dis 21, 660 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06358-3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06358-3