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

Moses, Priscilla; Cheah, Phee Kheng; Tey, Tiny Chiu Yuen; Lau, Jacqueline Chung Ling; Abdul Kadir, Mohamed Hakimi; Steven, Evelyn Marie; Ng, Khai Keam; Low, Lieh Yong; Cheah, Phaik Kin

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Author(s): Priscilla Moses ¹ , Phee Kheng Cheah ² , Tiny Chiu Yuen Tey ³ , Jacqueline Chung Ling Lau ³ , Mohamed Hakimi Abdul Kadir ² , Evelyn Marie Steven ² , Khai Keam Ng ² , Lieh Yong Low ² , Phaik Kin Cheah ⁴ ^,

Publication date (Electronic preprint): 24 February 2021

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Keywords: Covid-19, Malaysia, Healthcare workers, Nurse

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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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Publication date (Electronic preprint): 24 February 2021

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[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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Priscilla Moses https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4622-8903

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

Tiny Chiu Yuen Tey https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7039-2183

Jacqueline Chung Ling Lau https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2691-8533

Phaik Kin Cheah https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2615-5217

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DOI: 10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-.PP0PF3C.v1

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Date received : 24 February 2021

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

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Keywords: Covid-19,Malaysia,Healthcare workers,Nurse

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