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120 Algeria health workers have died from virus: ministry

Covid-19 street disinfection in Algeria

Municipal workers dressed in protective gear rest while disinfecting a street in the Bab el-Oued district of Algeria's capital Algiers, during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, on April 9, 2020.

Photo credit: Ryad Kramdi | AFP

Algiers,

Algeria's frontline health workers have lost 120 colleagues to the novel coronavirus pandemic among more than 9,000 who have caught the disease, the health ministry said Monday.