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Table. 3.

Table. 3.

Current status of COVID-19 test and workforce of participating medical institutions

Participating medical
institutions
Item
Medical technologists
(regular)
Medical technologists
(non-regular)
COVID-19 RT-PCR test per month COVID-19 GeneXpert test per month RT-PCR test workers GeneXpert test workers Average number of COVID-19 tests per month
Hospitals A 4 2 150 40 6 1 25
B 16 2 13,500 600 5 1 2,700
C 0 2 560 23 6 2 93
D - - 5,000 - 5 1 1,000
E - - 3,000 180 6 6 500
F 4 2 240 140 6 1 40
G 2 5 850 90 3.5 3.5 242
H 1 3 4,500 - 4 - 1,125
I 3 3 6,007 175 3 3 2,002
J 3 2 1,218 - 3 - 406
K - - 450 50 2 1 225
L - - 1,800 110 5 1 360
M 4 0 193 - - - -
Mean 4.1 2.6 2,882.2 156.4 4.5 2.1 726.5
Private
laboratories
A 2 0 54,000 - 14 - 3,857
B 36 19 53,584 - 18 - 2,976
Mean 19 9.5 53,792 - 16 - 3,416.5
Total average 6.8 3.6 9,670.1 156.4 6.2 2.1 1,110.8
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