Emergence of a Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): Protocol for Extending Surveillance Used by the Royal College of General Practitioners Research and Surveillance Centre and Public Health England

Simon de Lusignan   ^{1 *} , MSc, MD, FRCP ;   Jamie Lopez Bernal   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Maria Zambon   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Oluwafunmi Akinyemi   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Gayatri Amirthalingam   ^{2 *} , MPH ;   Nick Andrews   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Ray Borrow   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Rachel Byford   ^{1 *} , BSc ;   André Charlett   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Gavin Dabrera   ^{2 *} , MD ;   Joanna Ellis   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Alex J Elliot   ^{4 *} , PhD ;   Michael Feher   ^{1 *} , MD, FRCP ;   Filipa Ferreira   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Else Krajenbrink   ^{5 *} , MPH ;   Jonathan Leach   ^{5 *} , MSc, FRCP ;   Ezra Linley   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Harshana Liyanage   ^{1 *} , BSc, PhD ;   Cecilia Okusi   ^{1 *} , MRES ;   Mary Ramsay   ^{2 *} , MD, FRCP ;   Gillian Smith   ^{4 *} , MBBS ;   Julian Sherlock   ^{1 *} , BSc ;   Nicholas Thomas   ^{5 *} , PhD ;   Manasa Tripathy   ^{1 *} , BSc, MSc ;   John Williams   ^{1 *} , MSc, FRCP ;   Gary Howsam   ^{5 *} , MD, FRCP ;   Mark Joy   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Richard Hobbs   ^{1 *} , FRCP

¹ Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

² Public Health England, London, United Kingdom

³ Vaccine Evaluation Unit, Public Health England, Manchester, United Kingdom

⁴ Real-time Syndromic Surveillance Team, Public Health England, Birmingham, United Kingdom

⁵ Royal College of General Practitioners, London, United Kingdom

*all authors contributed equally