Hospital-Based Contact Tracing of Patients With COVID-19 and Health Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Eastern India: Cross-sectional Study

Durgesh Prasad Sahoo   ^{1 *} , MBBS, MD ;   Arvind Kumar Singh   ^{1 *} , MBBS, MD ;   Dinesh Prasad Sahu   ¹ , MBBS, MD ;   Somen Kumar Pradhan   ¹ , MBBS, MD ;   Binod Kumar Patro   ¹ , MBBS, MD ;   Gitanjali Batmanabane   ² , MBBS, MD ;   Baijayantimala Mishra   ³ , MBBS, MD ;   Bijayini Behera   ³ , MBBS, MD ;   Ambarish Das   ¹ , MBBS ;   G Susmita Dora   ¹ , MBBS, MD ;   L Anand   ⁴ , PhD ;   S M Azhar   ⁴ , MSc ;   Jyolsna Nair   ¹ , MBBS ;   Sasmita Panigrahi   ⁴ , MSc ;   R Akshaya   ¹ , MBBS ;   Bimal Kumar Sahoo   ¹ , MBBS, MD ;   Subhakanta Sahu   ¹ , MBBS, MD ;   Suchismita Sahoo   ⁴ , MSc

¹ Department of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

² All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

³ Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

⁴ College of Nursing, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

*these authors contributed equally