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Analysing the implementation of infection prevention and control measures in health care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic in the African Region

2023-06-27

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<h4>Background: </h4> The declaration of SARS-CoV-2 as a public health emergency of international concern in January 2020 prompted the need to strengthen infection prevention and control (IPC) capacities within health care facilities (HCF). IPC guidelines, with standard and transmission-based precautions to be put in place to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 at these HCFs were developed. Based on these IPC guideli...

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DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2999530/v1

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