Table 3.
Initial assessment and disposition from the emergency centre
| All n=1376 n (%) |
Metro n=1017 n (%) |
Rural n=359 n (%) |
P value | |
| Initial assessment in emergency centre | ||||
| Triage green | 455 (33.1) | 267 (26.4) | 188 (53.1) | <0.001 |
| Triage yellow | 292 (21.3) | 200 (19.7) | 91 (25.7) | |
| Triage orange | 516 (37.7) | 453 (44.7) | 63 (17.8) | |
| Triage red | 105 (7.7) | 93 (9.2) | 12 (3.4) | |
| Mild COVID | 676 (49.1) | 443 (43.6) | 232 (64.6) | <0.001 |
| Moderate COVID | 252 (18.3) | 191 (18.8) | 61 (17.0) | |
| Severe COVID | 335 (24.3) | 303 (29.8) | 32 (8.9) | |
| Critical COVID | 82 (6.0) | 72 (7.1) | 10 (2.8) | |
| Unknown COVID | 31 (2.3) | 7 (0.7) | 24 (6.7) | |
| Disposition from emergency centre | ||||
| Discharged home | 581 (42.2) | 378 (37.2) | 203 (56.5) | <0.001 |
| Transferred to higher level | 85 (6.2) | 66 (6.5) | 19 (5.3) | |
| Transferred to assisted isolation | 12 (0.9) | 2 (0.2) | 10 (2.8) | |
| Transferred to field hospital | 20 (1.5) | 19 (1.9) | 1 (0.3) | |
| Admitted to district hospital | 652 (47.4) | 531 (52.2) | 121 (33.7) | |
| Died | 13 (0.9) | 10 (1.0) | 3 (0.8) | |
| Other | 13 (0.9) | 11 (1.1) | 2 (0.6) | |