PUI
Noun
Meaning
PUI (plural PUIs)
(public health) Initialism of patient under investigation.
Examples
Elaborating on the local transmission cases involving Malaysians, Dr Noor Hisham said four of them were detected in Sarawak, while the two were from the new Pitakwa person under investigation (PUI) cluster, in Terengganu.
Does an employer need to ask for the consent of an employee who is a person under investigation (PUI) for Covid-19 when disclosing the PUI’s data to the person/s that such PUI have had contact with during the time of suspected infection?
He also revealed a total of 50 new cases of Person-Under-Investigation (PUI) have also been recorded today, bringing a total of 1,629 PUI cases since January 11.
As of February 18, 87 people were tested for COVID-19 of which 49 met the case definition for COVID-19 person under investigation (PUI), and all results have come back negative.
He was recently quarantined for one week after coming in contact with a PUI.
On the number of person under investigation (PUI), he said a total of 94 cases were recorded today while 23 cases are still pending lab test results.