Non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 reduced the incidence of infectious diseases: a controlled interrupted time-series study.

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"Funding This study was supported by Chinese Major Grant for the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (2018ZX10713003), the Australian Research Council (DP210102076), and the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (GNT2000581). WY and BW were supported by China Scholarship Council (number 202006010044 for YW and 202006010043 for BW); SL is supported by an Emerging Leader Fellowship of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC; GNT2009866); YG is supported by NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (GNT1163693) and Leader Fellowship (GNT2008813). The funding bodies did not play any role in the study design, data collection, data analyses, results interpretation, and writing of this manuscript."