Transmission dynamics of covid-19 and utility of contact tracing in risk assessment of health-care worker exposure during COVID-19 pandemic

• Main Authors: Malathi Murugesan (Author), Padmanaban Venkatesan (Author), Jagadish Ramasamy (Author), Prasanna Samuel (Author), Rajiv Karthik (Author), Winsley Rose (Author), Priscilla Rupali (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: In the COVID-19 pandemic, the frontline health-care workers (HCWs) are at increased risk of acquiring infection either through household or workplace exposure. Objectives: To assess the risk of acquiring infection after COVID-19 exposure, we evaluated the effectiveness of a contact traci...