1San Lazaro Hospital - Nagasaki University Collaborative Research Office, Manila, Philippines.
2School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 Sep;103(3):1211-1214. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-0715.
COVID-19 is an emerging disease threatening the lives of patients and healthcare workers (HCWs) alike. In this article, we present initial results of COVID-19 screening performed among the hospital staff of an infectious diseases referral hospital in Manila, the Philippines. Of 324 HCWs tested, eight were positive; only one was exposed to COVID-19 patients, whereas seven others belonged to two different departments. Routine screening of hospital staff is invaluable for the safety of the HCWs and the patients in hospitals and should be performed on a regular basis. In monitoring HCWs, we protect one of our most valuable assets against COVID-19.
新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）是一种威胁患者和医护人员（HCWs）生命的新兴疾病。在本文中，我们介绍了在菲律宾马尼拉一家传染病转诊医院的医院工作人员中进行的 COVID-19 筛查的初步结果。在接受检测的 324 名 HCWs 中，有 8 人呈阳性；只有一人接触过 COVID-19 患者，而另外 7 人则来自两个不同的部门。对医院工作人员进行常规筛查对于 HCWs 和医院患者的安全至关重要，应定期进行。在监测 HCWs 时，我们保护我们最有价值的资产之一免受 COVID-19 的侵害。
