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      COVID-19 screening at Emergency and Trauma Department, Sabah Women and Childrens Hospital, Malaysia

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            Abstract

            Many cases of COVID-19 infections involved healthcare workers around the world. In Malaysia, healthcare workers accounted for 2% of the total infected cases. Among the healthcare workers, nurses were most infected. At the Sabah Women and Childrens Hospital, the number of swabs taken for HCWs between May and November 2020 aggregated to 7,476 swabs, from which 167 positive cases were detected.

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            ScienceOpen Posters
            ScienceOpen
            24 February 2021
            Affiliations
            [1 ] Department of General Studies, Faculty of Creative Industries, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia
            [2 ] Emergency and Trauma Department, Sabah Women and Children's Hospital, Malaysia
            [3 ] Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia
            [4 ] Department of Public Relations, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia
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            https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4622-8903
            https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2523-2997
            https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7039-2183
            https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2691-8533
            https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2615-5217
            Article
            10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-.PP0PF3C.v1
            53e4c97e-c73b-4b97-99f7-375ab0d70b09

            This work has been published open access under Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 4.0 , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Conditions, terms of use and publishing policy can be found at www.scienceopen.com .

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            : 24 February 2021

            The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
            Medicine
            Covid-19,Malaysia,Healthcare workers,Nurse

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