Table 1.
Information on nasal swab samples
| Month of Collection | Total | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2016 | December 2016 | January 2017 | February 2017 | March 2017r | April 2017 | May 2017 | June 2017 | July 2017 | August 2017 | September 2017 | ||
| No. of nasal swabs | 1 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 77 |
| No. of CoV positivesa | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
a
Positives in RT‐PCR based on consensus primers targeting RNA‐dependent RNA polymerase region of coronaviruses (Poon et al., 2005).
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