80,000-180,000 health workers may have died from Covid by May 2021: WHO
- A WHO paper estimated that out of the world's 135 million health staff between 80,000 to 180,000 health and care workers could have died from Covid-19
- WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said health care workers needed to be immunised against the disease first, as he slammed the global inequity in the vaccine roll-out