Six employees of the surgery department of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) have been diagnosed with the corona virus. The Leiden hospital reports this on Friday.
Healthcare personnel have been in close contact with five patients. These patients have been informed by the LUMC and the GGD and remain in quarantine for ten days at home or in hospital as a precaution.
Close contact means that the employees were less than 1.5 meters away from the patient for more than 15 minutes in the 48 hours before the corona symptoms started.
After it became known that there were corona infections among the staff, the LUMC carried out source and contact research. According to the LUMC, extra measures have been taken in the relevant surgery department.
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