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.

  • The typo “24%” in the 1st page, 3rd paragraph, should be written as ‘25%’.

  • The typo “547 and 642 cases” in the 3rd page, left-hand column, 3rd paragraph, should be written as ‘555 and 634’.

  • 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.

  • 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%’.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The corrected Fig. 1 is given below.

figure a

  • The corrected Fig. 5 is given below

figure b

  • The corrected Table S6 is given below.

 

First epidemic wave

Second epidemic wave

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)