Patient record files in public hospitals are handled by multiple members of staff and are therefore capable of transmitting the SARS-Cov-2 virus among healthcare workers. An affordable paperless system would be an ideal way of dealing with this mode of SARS-CoV-2 transmission. This open-access article is distributed under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC 4.0.
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