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Authors
Arendse, Tracy
Cowper, Beverley
Cohen, Cheryl
Masha, Maureen
Tempia, Stefano
Legodu, Civil
Singh, Sandhya
Ratau, Tebogo
Geffen, Leon
Heymans, Ansie
Coetzer, Dane
Blumberg, Lucille
Jassat, Waasila
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Article History
Received: 16 November 2021
Accepted: 6 May 2022
First Online: 24 May 2022
Declarations
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: COVID-19 is a notifiable medical condition in South Africa, and as such, individual consent was waivered as the data was collected for national surveillance. The data used for this study were de-identified to ensure confidentiality. All personal information of the residents and staff, concerning health status, treatment or stay in a health establishment, were kept confidential and stored in a secure server. For analysis, patient identifiers were de-linked from other data and stored separately. Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the University of the Witwatersrand Human Research Ethics Committee (M160667).
: There are no competing interests for this study.
