COVID-19 Healthcare Worker Screening at Emergency Department, Hospital Wanita & Kanak- Kanak Sabah, Malaysia from May-December 2020

Since the beginning of the pandemic we have recorded a total of 3,355 healthcare workers (HCW) screened at Emergency & Trauma Department (ETD) of Sabah Women and Childrens Hospital (HWKSS). This amounted to 8,823 swabs taken for HCWs from a total of 21,367 swabs taken in ETD during the same period. The average swab per HCW was 2.62 swab/person. From the 8,823 swabs taken, 46 HCWs were detected positive for Covid-19.

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Author and article information

Journal

Title: ScienceOpen Posters

Publisher: ScienceOpen

Publication date (Electronic preprint): 7 January 2021

Affiliations

[1 ] Pre-Hospital Unit, Emergency and Trauma Department, Sabah Women and Children's Hospital, Ministry of Health Malaysia.

[2 ] Emergency and Trauma Department, Sabah Women and Children's Hospital, Ministry of Health Malaysia.

Author information

Phee Kheng Cheah https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2523-2997

Article

DOI: 10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-.PP54NGU.v2

SO-VID: a04cabe7-0f32-4ef7-8fc1-14030d79ee53

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History

Date received : 6 January 2021

Data availability: The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

ScienceOpen disciplines: Emergency medicine & Trauma,Public health,Infectious disease & Microbiology

Keywords: Pandemic, public health, healthcare worker, covid-19