Healthcare professionals has in recent weeks accounted for around 20 percent of the confirmed smittetilfælde in Denmark.
A fifth of the people as the last month’s time has been tested positive for the corona virus, are health care professionals.
It is upshot, according to health authorities, the 11. march opened for employees in the healthcare system in the higher level could be tested for the coronavirus.
the Figures come from a new report from Statens Serum Institut (SSI).
Since the middle of march is 9663 healthcare professionals has been tested for coronaviruses, and about ten percent of them have tested positive.
Healthcare professionals and it covers people who have a healthcare authorisation from the Danish Agency for Patient safety. It is among the other doctors and nurses as well as many of those who work in a nursing home.
They also constitute more than one-fifth of all that has been tested for coronavirusset in Denmark in the same period.
There are in Denmark around 240.000 authorized healthcare professionals. Of them is about four percent have been tested for coronaviruses, and approximately ten percent have tested positive.
the Report provides no clear answer on whether the health workforce in the higher the degree becomes infected because of their work. It is difficult to monitor exactly where the infection occurs, and healthcare workers may become infected both in and outside the workplace, says.
health care workers will be increasingly tested by milder than symptoms than the rest of the population.
By the rest of the population since the middle of march in all been tested 32.043 persons, of whom nine percent have been shown to be infected with the Covid-19, which is the disease, you can develop, if you are infected with coronavirus.
In tandem with that there will be screwed up for the number of people being tested, expect Statens Serum Institut, the proportion of persons who test positive, will fall.
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