The International Council of Nurses said on Wednesday that at least 90,000 health workers around the world are believed to have had Covidia 19 and possibly more, amid reports of a continuing shortage of personal protective equipment.

She said in a statement that the disease had killed more than 260 nurses, and urged the authorities to keep more accurate records to help prevent the spread of the virus among staff and patients.
The Geneva-based association said a month ago that 100 nurses had died in the epidemic caused by the new coronavirus, which appeared in central China's Wuhan late last year.

The number of injuries among health care workers has increased from 23,000 to more than 90,000, but this is still less than reality because it does not cover [every] country in the world Howard Caton CEO of ICN told Reuters Television.  Their offices are on the shores of the lake.

The estimate of 90,000 is based on information gathered in 30 countries from national nursing societies, government figures, and media reports. ICN represents 130 National Societies and over 20 million registered nurses.

Noting that 3.5 million cases of Covid-19 disease have been reported worldwide, Caton said: If the average health worker injury rate, we think about 6% applies to that, the global figure could be more than 200,000 worker injuries In health care today.

The scandal is that governments do not collect this information and report it systematically. It seems to us that they turn a blind eye to our belief, which is totally unacceptable and will cost more lives Caton added.

The World Health Organization (WHO), which coordinates the global response to the epidemic, says that the 194 member states do not provide full numbers of health care worker injuries as they fight the unprecedented crisis.
The World Health Organization said last April 11 that it believed about 22,000 health workers were infected.

ICN said it now believes that these horrific numbers drastically reduce reality.

This failure to record injury and death rates among health care workers puts more nurses and their patients at risk the statement said.