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. 2020 Oct 26;538:221–225. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.10.059

Table 2.

Testing populations according to priority level.

High priority populations
  • 1

    Inpatients - general wards and ICUa

  • 2

    Hospital pre-admission testing for subset of clinically relevant conditions that pose a risk to patients (e.g. cancer patients) or staff (e.g. ENT surgery; bronchoscopy etc)a

  • 3

    Symptomatic hospital staffa

  • 4

    Hospital staff working with high-risk patients (e.g. immunosuppressed patients such as oncology, transplantation patients)

  • 5

    Hospital staff regardless of symptoms

Medium priority populations
  • 6

    Care home staff & residents

  • 7

    Isolation facilities at entrya

  • 8

    Symptomatic essential service personnel

  • 9

    Symptomatic high-risk occupation personnel (lab staff, miners, prison wardens, etc.)

  • 10

    Individuals exposed in outbreaks

Low priority populations
  • 11

    Individuals attending primary care facilitiesb

  • 12

    Contacts of known positivesb

  • 13

    Repatriation testing

  • 14

    Community active case findingb

a

Populations prioritised for point point-of-care testing.

b

pooled testing could be considered for these populations given likely low prevalence.