Drive-Through Screening Center for COVID-19 : a Safe and Efficient Screening System against Massive Community Outbreak

© 2020 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences..

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak is ongoing, the number of individuals to be tested for COVID-19 is rapidly increasing. For safe and efficient screening for COVID-19, drive-through (DT) screening centers have been designed and implemented in Korea. Herein, we present the overall concept, advantages, and limitations of the COVID-19 DT screening centers. The steps of the DT centers include registration, examination, specimen collection, and instructions. The entire service takes about 10 minutes for one testee without leaving his or her cars. Increased testing capacity over 100 tests per day and prevention of cross-infection between testees in the waiting space are the major advantages, while protection of staff from the outdoor atmosphere is challenging. It could be implemented in other countries to cope with the global COVID-19 outbreak and transformed according to their own situations.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:35

Enthalten in:

Journal of Korean medical science - 35(2020), 11 vom: 23. März, Seite e123

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kwon, Ki Tae [VerfasserIn]
Ko, Jae Hoon [VerfasserIn]
Shin, Heejun [VerfasserIn]
Sung, Minki [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Jin Yong [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Drive-through
Journal Article
Outbreak
SARS-CoV-2
Screening

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Date Completed 23.03.2020

Date Revised 18.12.2020

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e123

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM307803031