A total of 27,360 SA hospital workers - which include doctors, nurses, porters and other hospital staff - have contracted the coronavirus since the start of the outbreak.
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“The overall infection rate among health-care workers as compared to the total number of cases identified nationally is 5%, which is well below the global average of 10%,” said Mkhize. A total of 14,143 nurses had tested positive for the virus since the outbreak while 1,644 infections were reported among doctors. Twenty-eight porters had also tested positive while the remaining 11,545 infections — 42% of the total number of infections — came from other categories of those employed in the health sector.
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