Abstract

The novel coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a great threat to medical institutions to which patients with underlying diseases are admitted. COVID-19 outbreak must be prevented and minimized to spread to the hospital. Triage of symptomatic patients, healthcare workers, caregivers and visitors has to be implemented to the entrance system. To minimize the outbreak, early suspicion and detection, regular environmental cleaning and disinfection, appropriate personal protective equipment should be applied and monitored. Standard precaution and droplet precaution must be routinely emphasized to prevent COVID-19 nosocomial transmission. Healthcare institution needs to prepare to empower their infection control policy and resources to control COVID-19.

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