COVID-19 patients with negative results on initial screening: Experience of Brunei Darussalam

In any infectious disease outbreak, early diagnosis, isolation of cases and quarantine of contacts are central to disease containment. In Brunei Darussalam, suspected cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were quarantined either at home or at designated centres and were tested immediately for...

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Autores principales: Chong, Vui Heng, Wong, Justin, Abdullah, Muhammad Syafiq, Asli, Rosmonaliza, Momin, Riamiza Natalie, Ahmed, Siti Nabilah, Tamin, Norhasyimah, Mani, Babu Ivan, Chong, Pui Lin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: World Health Organization 2022
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Non Theme Issue
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8935325/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35355900
http://dx.doi.org/10.5365/wpsar.2022.13.1.772
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Sumario:In any infectious disease outbreak, early diagnosis, isolation of cases and quarantine of contacts are central to disease containment. In Brunei Darussalam, suspected cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were quarantined either at home or at designated centres and were tested immediately for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. We report on 10 cases of COVID-19 that initially tested negative for COVID-19 and were positive on re-testing after becoming symptomatic. These cases comprised 3.8% of the 266 total confirmed COVID-19 cases in Brunei Darussalam as of 9 July 2021, when this study was conducted. All the cases were in quarantine at home and were tested early during their quarantine period. Since then, home quarantine has been replaced by quarantine at designated centres only, with testing on the 12th day of quarantine.

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