Covid-19 Sentinel Hospital Surveillance for Hcws Report
COVID-19 Sentinel Hospital Surveillance Weekly Update on Hospitalized HCWs Update: Week 34, 2020 Compiled by: Epidemiology and Surveillance Division National Institute for Occupational Health 25 Hospital Street, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg This report summarises data of COVID-19 cases admitted to sentinel hospital surveillance sites in all 1 provinces. The report is based on data collected from 5 March to 22 August 2020 on the DATCOV platform. HIGHLIGHTS As of 22 August 2020, 2 481 (4.2%) of the 58 594 COVID-19 hospital admissions recorded on the DATCOV surveillance database, were health care workers (HCWs), reported from 245 facilities (71 public-sector and 174 private-sector) in all nine provinces of South Africa. Among 701/2481 (28.3%) HCWs with available data on type of work, 335/701 (47.8%) were nurses, 171/701 (24.4%) were categorized as other HCWs, 88/701 (12.5%) porters or administrators, 47/701 (6.7%) allied HCWs, 37/701 (5.3%) doctors, 16/701 (2.3%) paramedics, and 7/701 (1.0%) laboratory scientists. There was an increase of 261 new HCW admissions since week 33. Notably, 185/261 HCW admissions were retrospectively captured into the DATCOV system and are not real-time admissions from the last week. There were 299 (12.1%) and 2182 (87.9%) admissions reported in the public and private sector, respectively. The majority of HCW admissions were reported in Gauteng (778, 31.4%), KwaZulu-Natal (606, 24.4%), Eastern Cape (395, 15.9%) and Western Cape (276, 11.1%). The median age of COVID-19 HCW admissions was 49 years, there were 440 (17.7%) admissions in HCWs aged 60 years and older.
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