At least 116 physicians in Bangladesh died of Covid-19 so far with one more death on Monday, according to the Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA).
Meanwhile, some 8,092 health workers so far tested positive for the coronavirus.
Out of the total infections, some 2853 doctors, 1968 nurses, and 3271 other health staffers got infected since the first virus case was reported in the country on March 8 till November 2.
Meanwhile, at least 28 journalists died of Covid-19 while 12 more died with coronavirus-like symptoms across the country so far, according to a local journalists’ platform titled ‘Our Media, Our Rights’ as of Sunday.
Newsmen are facing the brunt of the virus infection in the pandemic because of their role of covering events from the frontline.
Besides, a total of 1093 newsmen of national and regional newspapers, TV, online media, and other platforms got infected with the virus till Sunday.
Out of the total infected, some 1005 newsmen made recovery and joined their services so far, it added.
