Italy says number of doctors killed by coronavirus passes 100
One hundred Italian doctors have died of the novel coronavirus since the pandemic reached the country in February, Italy's main doctors' association said on Thursday, with analysts estimating that 10 percent of those infected in Italy work in healthcare, France 24 reported.
"The number of doctors who have died because of Covid-19 is 100 — perhaps even 101 at the moment, unfortunately," a spokesperson for the association, known as the FNOMCeO, told AFP.
The toll includes retired doctors the government began calling in a month ago to help fight a coronavirus that has officially claimed a world-topping 17,669 lives in Italy.
"We can longer allow our doctors, our health workers, to be sent to fight without any protection against the virus," the association's president Filippo Anelli said on its website.
"It is an unfair fight," he added.
Italian media reports estimate that 30 nurses and nursing assistance have also died of Covid-19.
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