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INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF POVERTY
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-020-00725-z
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COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Isolation room; Facemask; Hand hygiene
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From December 25, 2019 to January 31, 2020, 33 cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were identified in the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, China, yet none of the affiliated HCWs was infected. Here we analyzed the infection control measures used in three different departments in the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University and correlated the measures with the corresponding infection data of HCWs affiliated with these departments. We found that three infection control measures, namely the isolation of the presumed positive patients, the use of facemasks and intensified hand hygiene play important roles in preventing nosocomial transmission of COVID-19.
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