COVID-19 frontline health workers require protection 22nd December 2020 A healthcare worker walks beside an ambulance in Tangerang, Banten, (12/11/2020). . (ANTARA FOTO/FAUZAN) No country, hospital, or clinic can keep its patients safe unless it keeps its health workers safe A year since the first case of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection was reported in Wuhan City, China, the SARS CoV-2 virus has infected over 77 million globally and killed 1.7 million of them. COVID-19 has gripped Indonesia since March when two women in a family -- a mother and her daughter -- were firstly reported to have contracted the disease. The virus has spread rapidly and infected hundreds of thousands of people across the archipelago. Tens of thousands succumbed to the virus, including health workers at the frontline of the fight against COVID-19.