ISLAMABAD: Coronavirus has continued to take a toll on healthcare workers across the country as 116 of them tested positive for Covid-19 during the last 24 hours.
According to a report prepared by the National Institute of Health (NIH) Islamabad and conveyed to the Ministry of National Health Services, the number of health workers affected by the virus has reached 4,787.
“The virus-affectees within the past 24-hours included 80 doctors, 11 nurses and 25 paramedics,” the report said.
Further highlighting the number of medics affected by the infection, the report said that 2,910 doctors have so far tested positive for Covid-19, followed by 577 nurses and 1,300 other health workers.
“Currently, 2,500 health workers are quarantined at their homes, while 321 are receiving treatment at countrywide hospitals and of the 321 are said to be in a stable condition,” the report showed.
It said that 1,918 coronavirus-positive healthcare workers have recovered. On the other hand, 48 of the medics have so far died of the infection including two of them who breathed their last due to it during the last 24 hours.
It is pertinent to mention here that the countrywide tally of coronavirus cases has jumped to 171,577 after 6,604 new infections were detected in Pakistan over the past 24 hours while 153 more people succumbed to the deadly disease.
