Health care workers make up one in seven covid-19 cases recorded globally, WHO says
Health care workers account for one in seven coronavirus cases recorded by the World Health Organization, the U.N. health agency said this week.
“Globally, around 14 percent of covid-19 cases reported to WHO are among health workers, and in some countries it’s as much as 35 percent,” WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a news conference in Geneva.
The figures are disproportionate: Data collected by the WHO suggests that health workers represent less than 3 percent of the population in the majority of countries and less than 2 percent in almost all low- and middle-income countries.
But the WHO’s data, released to mark World Patient Safety Day on Thursday, fits with other estimates. In April, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that health care workers accounted for 11 percent to 16 percent of covid-19 cases during the first surge of infections in the United States.
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