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Hyderabad: Amid the surge in COVID-19 cases in Telangana, several doctors and health workers have also been infected with the coronavirus. Speaking to ANI, Dr Sambit, HOD of Critical Care at Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) said, "We are getting 50 cases every day, out of which 25-40 are in-patients. A few doctors have also been afflicted, but most are either asymptomatic or mildly afflicted." He said as a precaution, doctors with infections have been advised to be in isolation and not report to duty until they are well. "We have also advised doctors to be careful during their surgeries and to space them out. Our rooter system ensures that not all doctors have surgeries every day, which means that the system is not overloaded and not everyone is infected at the same time. The number given by epidemiologists does not match what we are seeing," he said.