Potential Concerns About a Decrease in the Number of Healthcare Providers Seeking COVID-19 Testing: A Letter to the Editor

In line with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) health regulations, two mandatory measures to control coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are increasing testing capacity and isolating positive cases (1). Healthcare providers, as a sub-population in the community, are at high risk of developing COVID-19, mainly due to occupational exposure (2, 3). The relatively high mortality rate among the medical staff confirms this grim fact. Accordingly, extensive testing and the early detection of positive cases are necessary to maintain this group healthy (1) © 2021. Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited