MADRID, May 5 — More than 70 per cent of new virus cases detected in Spain over the past 24 hours have been among medical staff, the health ministry said today. With the epidemic well in remission after peaking over a month ago, Spain has begun moves to ease out of the lockdown following weeks in...
Inadequate protective equipment was a common complaint among health workers. — Reuters pic
These latest figures confirm a trend in recent weeks that showed medical staff accounting for most new infections. In two large hospitals in Madrid and Catalonia, the regions worst-hit by the crisis, there had been “an 11 per cent infection rate among staff”, he said. Far fewer had to be hospitalised or treated in intensive care, he said—also attributing it to the age difference.Health workers have greater access to tests for the virus, which might be one reason they feature so prominently in the official figures.
And last week, Spain’s primary care doctors association issued a statement expressing “concern about the lack of adequate means... to avoid infection by coronavirus”.
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