Controlling transmission in restaurants is an important component of public health and social measures for coronavirus disease. We examined the effects of restaurant measures in Hong Kong. Our findings indicate that shortening operating hours did not have an effect on time-varying effective reproduction number when capacity was already reduced.
Keywords: COVID-19; Gao H; Hong Kong; Hong Kong. Emerg Infect Dis. 2022 Mar [date cited]. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2803.211015; Lau EHY; SARS-CoV-2; Suggested citation for this article: Ho F; Tsang TK; Wong JY; Xiao J; community transmission; coronavirus disease; et al. Restaurant-based measures to control community transmission of COVID-19; influenza; nonpharmaceutical interventions; reproductive number; respiratory infections; restaurant; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; viruses; zoonoses.