A study concluded that isolation measures to confront the "Covid-19" pandemic reduced the transmission rates of the emerging virus and may have prevented the death of more than 3 million people in Europe, according to the "Arabia" website.
Scientists from Imperial College London concluded in their study based on a model of the impact of the closure in 11 countries that the most severe steps taken in March had led to a "substantive impact" and helped bring the number of infections to less than one by early May.
The team estimated that between 12 and 15 million people in 11 countries, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, would have had COFED-19, the disease caused by the virus, by early May.
By comparing the number of deaths counted in those countries with the number predicted by the study model, they found that measures of general isolation prevented about 3.1 million deaths.
Another study, published in the journal Nature by scientists in the United States, concluded that the general isolation policies imposed in China, South Korea, Italy, Iran, France and the United States prevented or delayed the infection of about 530 million people.
To that, scientists found that without the general isolation policies, the rates of disease spread initially would increase by 68% daily in Iran and by 38% daily on average in the other five countries.