51 Italian doctors who were tested positive for coronavirus have all died from the disease.

According to the report published by Ebenews.erykon.com, the Association of Doctors in Italy have confirmed the death of 51 doctors who all died after tested positive for coronavirus.

Filippo Anelli, the president of the association is calling the attention of authorities to provide doctors in the country of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). This calling of attention is based on a clear evidence following after the incident of the 51 doctors who were frontlieners and all now were dead.

Anelli cited the importance of giving protection to the healthcare workers in the since that they are the first people in the line against the war of COVID-19 pandemic. He also noted that with the protection the country can offer to the health worker will make sure that thy cannot spread of the virus. He also said that the dead make no noise.

“The first thing to do is to protect healthcare workers, to make sure they are not the ones spreading the virus. Our doctors have been sent to war unarmed,” Anelli told The Financial Times in a Thursday article. “The dead do not make a noise. Yet, the names of our dead friends, our colleagues, put here in black and white, make a deafening noise,” he said.

According to the Italian National Institute of Health, more than 6,000 health workers have been infected by coronavirus as of Thursday. 

Italy has the highest COVID-19 death toll of any country in the world. According to the Worldmeters.info Italy’s death toll rises to 13,155 out of the 110,574 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with the total recoveries 16,847.