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Highlights Epidemiological conditions and surveillance actions should be closely monitored and enforced. As a prerequisite to the implementation of any exit strategy, COVID-19 must be under control below thresholds of safeguards. Large-scale testing, contact tracing, and isolation strategies emerged as essential components that allowed the easing of the lockdown. The maintenance of social distancing measures emerged as an overarching mitigation strategy. The benefit gained from the practical implementation of social distancing (i.e., limiting classes to small cohorts of students, school shifts, avoidance of pattern mixing, gradual returning, and teleworking) was evident.

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