Confirmed 2020-2021 COVID-19 cases at Manzini, Eswatini

This is secondary data that was routinely collected by the Patient Management Information System (PMIS), Health Management Information System (HMIS), Laboratory Management Information System (LMIS), and the Immediate Disease Notification System (IDNS). The PMIS and HMIS systems are mostly found in facilities while the LMIS is found in the laboratories from the facility level to the national laboratory level. The IDNS is utilized by anyone who comes into contact with a patient from rural health motivators to facility level and also the emergency preparedness and response (EPR) teams/case management. The IDNS data is then shared using google sheets and the EPR team and the deputy director of clinical services have editor’s rights for these google sheets. The surveillance officers are responsible for retrieving data and data cleaning activities such as identifying duplications and outliers also correcting incorrect records. A nasopharyngeal swab was preferred over the oral swab as it was suggested to have a high yield of the virus policymakers. A rapid antigen test was used and a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used for confirmation or with asymptomatic clients. The data was available as an excel document which was changed and all string variables were converted to numerical variables. The variables were also catergorised accordingly and then converted to a stata dataset.

本数据集为患者管理系统（Patient Management Information System，PMIS）、健康管理信息系统（Health Management Information System，HMIS）、实验室管理系统（Laboratory Management Information System，LMIS）及即时疾病报告系统（Immediate Disease Notification System，IDNS）常规收集的次级数据。PMIS及HMIS系统主要部署于各类设施中，而LMIS则分布于从设施级至国家级实验室的实验室。IDNS系统由接触患者的农村健康推动者至设施级以及紧急预案准备与响应（Emergency Preparedness and Response，EPR）团队/病例管理等部门使用。IDNS数据通过谷歌表格进行共享，EPR团队和临床服务副总监拥有这些谷歌表格的编辑权限。监测官员负责数据检索及数据清洗活动，如识别重复数据、异常值，并更正错误记录。鼻咽拭子因其高病毒检出率而优先于口腔拭子。快速抗原检测用于初步检测，聚合酶链反应（Polymerase Chain Reaction，PCR）用于确认检测或对无症状客户进行检测。数据以Excel文档的形式提供，经过修改后，所有字符串变量均转换为数值变量。变量随后按照相应类别进行分类，并最终转换为Stata数据集。