4,824 health workers were infected, two other victims among doctors

In Italy, according to data from the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), 4,824 healthcare professionals were infected with the coronavirus since the beginning of the epidemic, equal to 9% of the total number of people who contracted the infection, a percentage more than double that of the Chinese study published in JAMA (3.8%). The Gimbe foundation fears that the data is widely underestimated. He asks that the tests be extended to all professionals and health workers and that vegan tools of protection are provided to those involved in the front line against the emergency.

And two new victims are added to the list of doctors who died because of Covid-19, in Cremona and Parma. It is, we learn from the National Federation of Medical Orders (Fnomceo), Leonardo Marchi , infectious disease specialist and director of the San Camillo Nursing Home in Cremona and Manfredo Squeri , a retired hospital doctor. Squeri worked as a doctor in charge of the medicine department at the 'Piccole Figlie' nursing home in Parma, affiliated with the National Health Service.

In total, for the Fnomceo, there would be 19 the number of doctors who died due to the coronavirus.