UK doctors are threatening to quit because they have not been given enough safety equipment to protect them from the coronavirus

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• Doctors in the UK could quit the NHS if they are not given better equipment to protect themselves from the coronavirus, according to a group representing them.
• 'Some doctors may feel they have no choice but to give up the profession they love, because they feel so abandoned by not being given the PPE that the World Health Organization recommends,' Dr Rinesh Parmar, chair of the Doctors' Association UK, told the Guardian.
• The move threatens to undermine an NHS recruitment drive which the government launched last week.
• There have been 8,077 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the UK and 422 deaths.
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LONDON — Doctors leading the fight against the coronavirus in the UK have threatened to quit if the UK government fails to provide them with adequate protective equipment soon.

As the outbreak continues to grow in the UK, with 8,077 confirmed cases and 422 deaths, doctors say they are being forced to endanger their own health due to a nationwide shortage of the right equipment.

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