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COVID-19 infection among health care workers: Experience in Base Hospital Wathupitiwala, Sri Lanka

2021-08-29

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Coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) is a serious global health pandemic resulting in high mortality and morbidity. Frontline health care workers (HCWs) are at an increased risk of the acquisition of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 infection (SARS CoV-2) due to their close interaction with infected patients (1, 2). Also, HCWs can serve as reservoirs of SARS CoV-2 cross-transmission both in communit...

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10.1101/2021.08.28.21262733
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