Characteristic School hot spot (HS)
(n=8,888) Emergency department
(n=2,771) Day Hospital
(n=1,248) Hospital wards
(n=376) p-value
N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%)
Gender
Male 4,126 (46.4)a 1,294 (47.0) 480 (38.5)b 169 (45.1) <0.001
Female 4,757 (53.6)b 1,460 (53.0) 768 (61.5)a 206 (54.9)
Age category
0 to 2 months 13 (0.1)b 197 (7.1)a 29 (2.3) 39 (10.4)a <0.001
3 months to 2 years 1,638 (18.4)b 1,087 (39.2)a 235 (18.8)b 71 (18.9)
3 to 5 years 1,981 (22.3)a 448 (16.2)b 263 (21.1) 62 (16.5)b
6 to 10 years 2,805 (31.6)a 513 (18.5)b 323 (25.9) 69 (18.4)b
11 to 13 years 1,555 (17.5)a 384 (13.9)b 213 (17.1) 54 (14.4)
14 to 19 years 896 (10.1) 142 (5.1)b 185 (14.8)a 81 (21.5)a
Type of swab
Nucleic acid amplification test 8,888 (100.0)a 2,297 (82.9)b 1,248 (100.0)a 3,54 (94.1)b <0.001
Rapid antigen detection test 0 (0.0)b 474 (17.1)a 0 (0.0)b 22 (5.9)a