An analysis of the COVID-19 laboratory dataset at AiBST Laboratory in Harare, Zimbabwe, 2020.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Zimbabwe
laboratory
pandemic
Journal
The Pan African medical journal
ISSN: 1937-8688
Titre abrégé: Pan Afr Med J
Pays: Uganda
ID NLM: 101517926
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
24
02
2021
accepted:
06
09
2021
entrez:
21
1
2022
pubmed:
22
1
2022
medline:
27
1
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a major public health problem and has spread rapidly around the globe since its first identification in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Zimbabwe reported its first case on the 20 a retrospective record review of secondary SARS-CoV-2 data from AiBST Laboratory in Harare between May to September 2020 was done. Epi Info TM 7.2.2.6 was used to generate frequencies, proportions and conduct bivariate analysis. a total of 6,535 SARS-CoV-2 laboratory records were analysed. The median age of the patients was 36 years and 55% (3594/6535) were males. There was an increase in average analytical turn-around time (TAT) of SARS-CoV-2 results from May to August 2020. Analytical and preanalytical TAT remained above 2 days from August to September. Males were 1.18 times at risk of being SARS-CoV-2 infected than females (p<0.05). The risk of being SARS-CoV-2 infected increased with age from 1.06 in the 11-20 age group to 1.45 in the 41-50 age group. COVID-19 poses a greater threat to the older age groups and to men. The delayed TAT of SARS-CoV-2 results limits the efforts to control the pandemic. Decentralization of testing to provincial and district level would help improve result TAT.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35059103
doi: 10.11604/pamj.2021.40.183.28520
pii: PAMJ-40-183
pmc: PMC8728806
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
183Informations de copyright
Copyright: Tendai Chipendo et al.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare no competing interest.
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