The National Center for Disease Control has announced that 19 medical staff at the Sebha Medical Center were infected with the novel Coronavirus.

This came according to a statement broadcast by the center’s “Health FM” radio station.

The director of the NCDC branch in Sebha, Abdul Hamid al-Fakhiri, said that the epidemic had reached the medical personnel in Sebha, stressing that the matter had become a more dangerous turning point.