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Soumya Jagannath,1 Ashish Agarwal,1
Deepak Gunjan ,1 Samir Mohindra,2
Vishal Sharma,3 Sudipta Dhar Chowdhury,4
Sanjeev Sachdeva,5 Vivek A Saraswat,6
Rakesh Kochhar,3 Anoop Saraya ,1 GAIN Group
1
Figure 1 Distribution of type of endoscopy
procedures done in April–May 2020 and
risk of infection to patients and healthcare
workers. EGD, esophagoduodenoscopy;
ERCP, endoscopic retrograde
cholangiopancreatography; EUS,endoscopic
ultrasound; HCW, healthcare worker.
Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition,
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi,
India
2
Gastroenterology, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh,
India
3
Gastroenterology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical
Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
4
Christian Medical College and Hospital Vellore, Vellore,
Tamil Nadu, India
5
Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital, New Delhi, Delhi, India
6
Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate
Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh,
India
Correspondence to Professor Anoop Saraya,
Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition,
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
110029, India; ansaraya@yahoo.com
Six (0.4%, 95% CI; 0.14%- 0.86%
with continuity correction) patients
turned out to be COVID-19 posi- Collaborators Members of GAIN Group (in
tive within 48–72 hours of the endo- alphabetical order)- All India Institute of Medical
scopic procedure. Of 74 HCWs, 3 (4%, Sciences, New Delhi, India: Ashish Agarwal, Samagra
Agarwal, Vineet Ahuja, Abhinav Anand, Rajat Bansal,
95% CI; 0.8% -t 11.4% with conti- Vikas Banyal, Kaushik Chatterjee, Anugrah Dhooria,
nuity correction) developed COVID-19 Anshuman Elhence, Pramod Garg, Srikanth Gopi,
infection. The risk of a HCWs getting Deepak Gunjan, Yegurla Jatin, Vikas Jindal, Bhaskar
COVID-19 positive after using adequate Kante, Kanav Kaushal, Saurabh Kedia, Soumya
Jagannath Mahapatra, Govind Makharia, Srikant
PPE was 0.26% per 100 endoscopies Mohta, Sandeep Kumar Mundhra, Piyush Pathak,
(figure 1). None of the patients devel- Shubham Prasad, Mahendra Singh Rajput, Atul Rana,
oped COVID-19 after 72 hours up to Anoop Saraya, Pabitra Sahu, Rahul Sethia, Shalimar,
2 weeks of endoscopy. This risk of trans- Sanchit Sharma, Amit Anurag Singh, Manas Vaishnav,
mission should be viewed in the context Sudheer Kumar Vuyurru. Post Graduate Institute of
Medical Educations and Research, Chandigarh, India:
of the high transmission phase (4.5%– Usha Dutta, Rakesh Kochhar, Harshal S Mandavdhare,
5.1% swab positivity rate in the commu- Gaurav Muktesh, Praveer Rai, Jayanta Samanta, Vishal
Sharma, Jayendra Shukla. Christian Medical College,
nity)5 6 in India during that period
The zero risk of cross-
infection in Vellore, India: Kaushik Chatterjee, Sudipta Dhar
Chowdhury, Amit Kumar Dutta, John Titus George,
the UK study could be due to multiple Rajeeb Jaleel, Anjilivelil Joseph, Ebby George Simon.
reasons: (1) deceleration phase of infec- Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute, Lucknow, India:
tion, (2) 42% of patients were tested Ptaviva Chandra, Samir Mohindra, Vivek Saraswat, Jimil
based on SCOTS criteria (telephone Shah. Gobind Ballabh Pant Hospital, New Delhi, India:
screen questions around Symptoms, Roshan George, Arpan Jain, Anurag Mishra, Sanjeev
Sachdeva, Alok Kumar Singh.
infectious Contacts, Occupational risk,
Travel risk and Shielding status) and only Contributors SJ, AA, DG, SDC, VS, SS, RK and AS:
study design, critical inputs, collection of data..
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