Over 30 AIIMS Doctors test positive for COVID19

The 20 doctors testing positive at AIIMS include two faculty members while the rest are resident doctors.

As many as 32 healthcare workers, including doctors, have tested positive for coronavirus in a week in Delhi’s AIIMS hospital amid a huge surge in COVID-19 cases in the country. A total of twenty doctors and around 6 MBBS students of AIIMS have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last ten days, official sources said. Of these 26, only two had taken single dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, a source said.

The 20 doctors testing positive at AIIMS include two faculty members while the rest are resident doctors. Majority of them have mild COVID-19. The contacts of most of them have been traced and the process is still on for some, the source said. There are more than 3000 doctors including resident doctors and faculty members working at AIIMS.

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