Tag: health workers

• Friday, January 22nd 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Covid-19: Peruvians doctors on hunger strike to protest government non action

  

  A group of Peruvian doctors launched a hunger strike this week to protest the government’s lack of preparation for a second wave of COVID-19 cases.

• Monday, September 28th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  British government pledges stockpiles of protective items for health workers

  

  The British government said it would have large stockpiles in place to provide a continuous flow of protective items, such as masks, to health workers tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, after criticism earlier in the year that supplies were too low.

• Thursday, May 7th 2020 - 07:48 UTC

  Some 90.000 healthcare workers infected with COVID-19 and 260 killed, Nurses Council claims

  

  At least 90,000 healthcare workers worldwide are believed to have been infected with COVID-19, and possibly twice that, amid reports of continuing shortages of protective equipment, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, April 15th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Morrisons supermarkets gives NHS workers a 10% discount support

  

  Morrisons, Britain's fourth-biggest supermarket group, said it is giving National Health Service (NHS) workers a 10% discount to support them through the coronavirus crisis. It is the first of Britain's 'Big Four' to give a monetary discount to 1.5 million NHS workers, who have already been offered priority shopping hours by market leader Tesco, Sainsbury's, Walmart owned Asda and Morrisons.