In Brazil almost 270,000 workers in health care had tested positive for Covid-19. She said that health workers were "becoming infected at an alarming rate." Etienne added that when the pandemic broke out many health workers were redirected to help without sufficient training to protect themselves. In many hospitals Covid-19 patients were exposed to others who had different conditions, leaving health workers more vulnerable. Etienne said the Americas region now have 13.5 million Covid-19 cases and almost 469,000 deaths from the virus.

Source: CNN September 02, 2020 17:02 UTC