Impact of COVID-19 on Blood Donation and Supply: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study from Saudi Arabia

Table 1

Comparison of blood transfusion characteristics of participants in Jeddah from January to June in years 2019 and 2020.

Characteristics	Jeddah		Significance
	2019	2020
No. of total donors			0.020
No. of Saudi donors			0.033
No. of non-Saudi donors			0.018
No. of rejected donors			0.045
No. of female donors			0.532
No. of male donors			0.011
No. of PRBCs			0.022
No. of FFP			0.020
No. of Plt conc.			0.007
No. of Cryo			0.967
No. of apheresis			0.711

Data were expressed as mean +/- standard deviation (SD). Significance between groups was calculated using Student -test for parametric data and # Mann–Whitney test for nonparametric data.