THE CORONAVIRUS has infected more than 10,000 health care workers in hard-hit Iran, news outlets reported on Thursday, as health officials in war-ravaged Yemen and Gaza expressed mounting concern about waves of new cases.
Iran’s semi-official news agencies cited Deputy Health Minister Qassem Janbabaei, who did not elaborate. Reports earlier in the week put the number of infected health care workers at only 800. Iran says more than 100 of those workers have died.
Iran is grappling with the deadliest outbreak in the Middle East, with at least 7249 fatalities among more than 129,000 confirmed cases. Those figures include an additional 66 deaths announced on Thursday by Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour.
For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more
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