At least 90,000 healthcare workers globally are believed to have been infected with coronavirus disease - International Council of Nurses
Nurse Cristina Cadenas, 53, hangs disinfected full personal protective equipment after her shift at Principe de Asturias hospital, amid the coronavirus outbreak, in Alcala de Henares in Spain on April 30, 2020.
The Geneva-based association said a month ago that 100 nurses had died in the pandemic sparked by a novel coronavirus that emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year. Catton, noting that 3.5 million cases of Covid-19 have been reported worldwide, said, "If the average health worker infection rate, about 6 percent we think, is applied to that, the figure globally could be more than 200,000 health worker infections today.
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