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

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.