Healthcare providers, families test positive

Adding to the exhaustion due to COVID-19 duty is the risk of infection that they face every day

Many healthcare providers/workers have tested positive for COVID-19 in the State. In a number of cases, family members of the doctors too have been infected. In the last two days, a government doctor and two nurses lost their lives to COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu. With exhaustion setting in among health workers, the risk of getting infected is adding to their stress. A doctor at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital said a ward meant for infected health workers, with about 25-30 beds, had no vacancies. “There are cases of re-infections among healthcare providers. Some have mild infection. Some who have taken both doses of the vaccines have also tested positive but with a mild infection, while those who are yet to get the jabs have become very sick,” he said.