Health care workers face threat of violence, along with dangers of treating Covid-19 patients

Health care workers around the world have been cheered and praised for risking their lives to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. They have also faced violence and abuse, sometimes from the patients they were trying to help.The first examples came in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the initial epicentre of the outbreak. Media reports told of doctors being beaten and threatened as people could not get treatment in overcrowded hospitals. As the virus spread, reports of attacks against medical workers…

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