Risk of nosocomial transmission of coronavirus disease 2019: an experience in a general ward setting in Hong Kong.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first reported in Wuhan in December 2019 and has rapidly spread across different cities within and outside China. Hong Kong started to prepare for COVID-19 on 31^st December 2019 and infection control measures in public hospitals were tightened to limit nosocomial transmission within healthcare facilities. However, the recommendations on the transmission-based precautions required for COVID-19 in hospital settings vary from droplet and contact precautions, to contact and airborne precautions with placement of patients in airborne infection isolation rooms.

Aim

To describe an outbreak investigation of a patient with COVID-19 who was nursed in an open cubicle of a general ward before the diagnosis was made.

Method

SUBMITTER: Wong SCY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7128692 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature