Over half of the doctors and nurses who died after testing positive have been in Italy, where more than 9,000 health workers have been infected so far, nearly the same amount as in Spain.
Olivier Véran, the French Minister of Solidarity and Health, noted the deaths"emphasised the extraordinary courage shown by all the doctors, nurses, firefighters and other people who help save lives every day."Spain
A 27-year-old anaesthetist working in the intensive care unit at Hospital Universitario La Paz in Madrid, Miguel Guirao, told NBC News:"We are trying to protect ourselves the best we can. Not just for ourselves, but for our families and other patients," expressing concern over the large number of infected medical workers in Spain.
A 25-year-old nurse also from the Gilan province, Narjes Khanalizadeh, was said to have died just days after Iran first confirmed the outbreak in February, Rudaw reports. Giuseppe Finzi, 62, Hematologist and Contract Professor of Vascular Diseases at the University of Parma, Parma, Italy Rosario Vittorio Gentile, 67, General Practitioner, Specialist in Allergology and Hematology, Cremona, ItalyRaffaele Giura, 80, Pneumologist, Como, ItalyJames T. Goodrich, 73, Neurosurgeon, Director of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Montefiore Health System, Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery, Pediatrics, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United StatesCapt.
Marcello Natali, 56, General Practitioner, Secretary of the Federation of General Practitioners of Lodi, Lodi, ItalyFreda Ocran, 50, Psychiatric Nurse, Jacobi Medical Center, New York, New York, United StatesCarlo Alberto Passera, 62, General Practitioner, Bergamo, ItalyPeng Yinhua, 29, Respiratory doctor, First People's Hospital of Jiangxia District, Wuhan, China
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