Dr. Kirsten Schaffer:

I wish to comment, if I may. We now have a much better understanding of the transmission of SARS-Cov-2 in hospitals and nursing homes and therefore we have much better infection prevention and control measures in place to avoid transmission. In my hospital we had positive healthcare workers in recent weeks but as we have implemented universal infection prevention and control measures, we had no transmission from positive healthcare workers to patients. That is the crucial part here. We understand the transmission much better and we know what infection prevention and control measures we must put in place to avoid transmission. We have to look closely at outbreaks in nursing homes to understand why transmission is still happening. If we use masks, gowns and gloves and stress the importance of hand hygiene and if we advise people to stay home if they feel any symptoms then we should be able to control transmission at a certain level.