The scale of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Americas is unprecedented, an official with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said today in a press conference.
And nowhere has its impact been bigger than in the healthcare workforce.PAHO Director Carissa Etienne, MBBS, MSc, said that nearly 570,000 healthcare workers in the Americas have fallen ill with COVID-19, and more than 2,500 have died.
Overall, there have been almost 13.5 million cases in the Americas and more than 469,000 deaths.Meanwhile, the outbreak in India continues unabated, South Korea is battling a second wave of infections driven largely by people older than 60, and European officials are warning about a resurgence of the virus across the continent.The pandemic's global