As Covid-19 affects healthcare workers, non-Covid patients left in limbo

As over 800 health workers, including more than 200 doctors have been infected with coronavirus, public health experts warn of a catastrophe if health workers are not protected.

All services, except for emergency ones, have remained shut for the last two days at Bir Hospital, Kathmandu, after 71 health workers, including over two dozen doctors, tested positive for Covid-19.