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Covid-19: identifying and isolating asymptomatic people helped eliminate virus in Italian village

BMJ 2020; 368 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1165 (Published 23 March 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;368:m1165

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