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cord-287167-rc9a5xs5	Kyaw, Win Mar	Healthcare worker acute respiratory illness cluster in 2020: Could it be from COVID-19?	2020-07-23		.txt	text/plain	1118	72	63	To the Editor-Since the emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in China, >45,000 confirmed cases including >60 healthcare workers (HCWs) have been reported in Singapore. 4 After the SARS nosocomial outbreak, web-based staff sickness surveillance systems have been established at TTSH for the early detection of HCW clusters of acute respiratory infection (ARI). 7 During the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of public healthtrained personnel maintained close monitoring of staff sickness reporting to identify ARI clusters among the 12,000 HCWs working at the 1,600-bed TTSH and its collocated 330-bed National Centre for Infectious Diseases, the national referral centre for COVID-19 response. Compared to the first 27 weeks of 2019 (n = 28), the number of ARI clusters identified among staff working in inpatient wards in 2020 (n = 39) was significantly lower: 49% versus 78%, respectively (OR, 0.26; 95% CI, 0.09-0.78; P = .016).	./cache/cord-287167-rc9a5xs5.txt	./txt/cord-287167-rc9a5xs5.txt