Red Cross Reports Hundreds of COVID-19-Related Attacks on Health Staff, Facilities

Medical workers take a patient under intensive care into the Columbus Covid 2 temporary hospital, newly built to fight the COVID-19 epidemic, in Rome, Italy, on March 16, 2020. Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images

A top Red Cross official says the agency has recorded more than 200 COVID-19-related incidents of violence against its health workers and facilities.

Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), said May 27 that the agency noted 208 attacks against health care workers and installations in 13 countries since March, and that the incidents have been related to the pandemic.