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115,000 health workers may have died from Covid by May 2021: WHO

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Around 115,000 health professionals are suspected to have died from Covid-19 between January 2020 and May 2021 says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization. SOUNDBITE

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