MEXICO CITY, April 1 — Nearly 30 medical workers at a hospital in northern Mexico have been infected with coronavirus, the regional health department told Reuters yesterday, in one of the worst outbreaks to hit the country’s healthcare system so far. Mexico has so far reported 1,215 coronavirus...
Two nurses wearing protective masks pose inside the new immediate response mobile hospital with 50 intensive care beds against the outbreak of coronavirus disease in Pachuca, Mexico March 19, 2020. — Reuters pic
Mexico has so far reported 1,215 coronavirus cases and 29 deaths, and officials have warned that hospitals and clinics could be overwhelmed if the number of infections rise to levels seen in Europe. The outbreak began when one of the hospital’s doctors contracted coronavirus from a patient at his private practice earlier this month, and then that doctor spread the virus to his colleagues while on duty, the department said.
Like elsewhere in the world, scores of Mexican healthcare workers have held protests against the lack of protective gear as they battle the virus outbreak.
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