The global pandemic coronavirus has claimed thousands of lives across the word and the doctors and nurses who are on the frontlines of fighting the disease, and treating patients relentlessly. This leaves them exposed more than anyone else, and it takes a lot of courage to keep doing your duty, despite that knowledge.
In India, a Kerala doctor who had treated a coronavirus-infected man who died in Kalaburgi last week, has tested positive for COVID-19.?
The 63-year-old doctor has been placed under quarantine at his home along with his family members and is being shifted to an isolation ward.?
In Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow, a 25-year-old junior doctor at the King George Medical University here has tested positive for novel coronavirus after coming in contact with two patients undergoing treatment for the disease at its premises.
The doctor has been kept in an isolation ward and is undergoing treatment, the spokesperson said.
"A woman from Canada and one of her relatives, who came in contact with her, are undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at an isolation ward at KGMU. A 25-year-old junior resident doctor had taken the samples of these patients. Suddenly, some symptoms were seen in him and he was tested at the university laboratory, where he was found to be coronavirus positive," KGMU spokesperson, Dr Sudhir Singh, told PTI.
In Rajasthan, a doctor at a private hospital was tested positive fro COVID-19.??
There are several other cases from around the world where doctors and nurses, who are working day and night are getting infected with the virus and some have eventually lost their lives too.
In Italy, the most-severely affected country where thousands of people have died, reported 13 deaths among the medics. More than 2,629 health workers have been infected.
There have been growing concerns about the safety of front-line medical staff who come into regular contact with infected patients.?
The latest figures on infected healthcare workers were released by a health foundation which said the 'huge number' of infected medics showed that procedures and protection equipment for doctors were 'still inadequate'.?
The problem is far worse than in China, because '8.3 per cent is more than double the percentage of the Chinese cohort', the Gimbe foundation's president, Nino Cartabellotta, told Italian media.?
Doctors around the world, who are testing thousands of patients are at a great risk of getting infected with coronavirus, due to shortage of masks and other safety gear, especially in countries which aren't adequately equipped to handle the health crises.
The novel coronavirus has so far infected 308,540 people and killed 13,069, globally.