Coronavirus meter: 165 infections, 12 deaths among Egypt's medical teams

CAIRO – 5 May 2020: Medical teams at isolation hospitals are prone to contract the deadly coronavirus; they face the risk of infection on a daily basis at greater rates than citizens.

Therefore, professional syndicates monitor infection cases and deaths among medical teams or the “White army” as known in the media, in a bid to protect them.

Egypt Today provides in the following lines the figures of infected cases among doctors, nurses and other specializations:

1- Physicians:

95 infections

8 deaths


2- Nursing staff:

55 infections

3 deaths


3- Dentists:

10 infections
1 death

4- Physiotherapy

5 infections