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Table 2 Baseline characteristics and epidemiological key data of the SARS-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak in the department of anaesthesiology

From: SARS-Coronavirus-2 cases in healthcare workers may not regularly originate from patient care: lessons from a university hospital on the underestimated risk of healthcare worker to healthcare worker transmission

Case number

Function

Onset of symptoms

Date of sample collection for SARS-CoV-2 test

Relevant contacta prior to onset of symptoms (or positive test if asymptomatic or unknown date of onset of symptoms)

1

Nurse

Asymptomatic

20 March 2020

None reported

2

Physician

19 March 2020

23 March 2020

None reported

3

Physician

Unknown

30 March 2020

Case 4 of the nephrology outbreak

4

Physician

Unknown

3 April 2020

Case 3

5

Physician

31 March 2020

3 April 2020

None reported

6

Nurse

Asymptomatic

3 April 2020

Case 1

7

Nurse

Unknown

5 April 2020

Case 4

8

Nurse

Asymptomatic

6 April 2020

None reported

  1. aRelevant contact was defined as direct contact with potentially infectious body fluids (e.g. respiratory tract specimen) without proper personal protective equipment (PPE) (patient to healthcare worker (HCW) contact), or exposure to aerosols without proper PPE (patient to HCW contact), or face-to-face contact under two meters without at least one person wearing a face mask (patient to patient, patient to HCW, HCW to patient and HCW to HCW contacts), or sharing the same patient room (patient to patient contact)