It is reported that many hospitals abroad refuse all visitors to patients in order to stop the spread of COVID-19. Patients feel lonely and worried, so some hospitals have created "Online Wish Wall" for the public.

Of 133 phones belonging to patients and their visitors at a Turkish hospital, more than three quarters were carrying staph bacteria—and one phone had the multi-drug-resistant strain MRSA.

In all, ninety-one face-to-face contacts were identified, twelve of whom had no vaccination scar, and six who had been hospital patients or visitors.