China says more than 1,700 health workers have been infected with corona virus and 6 have died.

Of these 1,716 health workers, 1,102 people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, where the onset of coronary pneumonia (Covid-19), the vice chairman of China's National Health Committee Zeng Yixin, said during the campaign, press conference in Beijing today.

The official added that another 400 infected health workers were also working in Hubei province, and the figures are as of February 11. Meanwhile, many doctors in Wuhan do not wear appropriate masks or protective gear when examining patients for lack of supplies, or reuse when they need to be replaced regularly.

An unnamed doctor working at a community clinic in Wuhan said he and at least 16 other colleagues are experiencing symptoms of Covid-19. However, the doctors still have to work hard because the number of patients is too crowded.

The risks facing Chinese medical staff are increasingly worrying, especially after the death of Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, one of the first to warn. about Covid-19. The incident caused public outrage by the 34-year-old doctor who was warned by the government for "spreading false information".

Chinese officials are trying to boost morale and provide the necessary material support to doctors on the front lines against epidemics. However, Ian Lipkin, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University in the US, warns the health workers' risk of nCoV infection is high, even when they wear protective clothing.

The Covid-19 epidemic has been reported in more than 30 provinces in China and 26 countries and territories around the world, causing 1,383 deaths and 64,434 cases. Three deaths recorded outside of mainland China were a Wuhan man in the Philippines, a man in Hong Kong and an old lady in her 80s in Japan.