‘An alarming trend’: More than 10 percent of medics infected with Covid-19 ‘in some countries’ – WHO chief

Covid-19 continues

Covid-19 continues to infect thousands of people across the world and healthcare workers are no exception, the World Health Organization chief said, calling the high ratio of medics struck by the disease a source of major unease.

“We are particularly concerned by the large numbers of infections reported among health workers,” WHO Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus said during his latest media briefing on Friday. He noted that the increasing number of medics affected by the pandemic raises the risk for everyone else, since such developments diminish any national health system’s ability to combat the virus.

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