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Table 3 Incidence rate of nosocomial COVID-19 according to number of patients per room

From: Risk of nosocomial coronavirus disease 2019: comparison between single- and multiple-occupancy rooms

Number of patients per rooma

Number of hospitalizations

Number of patients with nosocomial COVID-19

Patient-days of observation

Incidence rate per 10,000 patient-days

1A

268

1

3283

3.05

1B

1481

13

8892

14.62

2

6743

72

35,825

20.10

3

606

9

5469

16.46

4

3001

40

16,480

24.27

5

1935

31

8238

37.63

6

11,109

235

60,810

38.64

Total

25,143

401

138,997

28.85

  1. COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019
  2. a1A: single-bed room in an all single-bed room ward; 1B: single-bed room in a mixed single- and multiple-bed room ward