Research Article

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

Table 6

The average of blood transfusion characteristics of all participants in all regions in Saudi Arabia from January to June in years 2019 and 2020.

CharacteristicsAll regionsSignificance
20192020

No. of total donors0.896
No. of Saudi donors0.964
No. of non-Saudi donors0.847
No. of rejected donors0.500
No. of female donors0.952
No. of male donors0.889
No. of PRBCs0.854
No. of FFP0.852
No. of Plt conc.0.605
No. of Cryo0.924
No. of apheresis0.701

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.