More Than 1,700 Health Workers In China Have Been Infected With New Coronavirus
Chinese officials also said that six health workers have died from the disease now known as COVID-19. Meanwhile, the number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases worldwide rose to about 65,000.
More than 1,700 health workers in China have been infected with the new coronavirus, according to Chinese officials. Zeng Yixin, vice minister of the country's National Health Commission, announced Friday that at least 1,716 health workers had confirmed cases — and that six have died from the disease now known as COVID-19.
"At present, the duties of medical workers at the front are indeed extremely heavy," Zeng told a news conference, according to . "Their working and resting circumstances are limited, the psychological pressures are great, and
