Integrated infection control strategy to minimize nosocomial infection of corona virus disease 2019 among ENT healthcare workers
DanLuHaiyangWangRongYuHuiYangYuZhao
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.02.018
Sir,
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The most common symptoms are fever and dry cough; a minority of patients report other symptoms such as headache, sore throat and sneeze [1,2]. COVID-19 has rapidly spread from Wuhan, throughout China and into other countries. The virus-specific nucleic acid sequences have been detected in lung fluid, throat, oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal swab samples [3]. Due to lack of sufficient awareness of the COVID-19 in the early stages of the epidemic, some healthcare workers (HCWs) have been infected [4,5].