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Colombo, Sep 22 (EFE/EPA).- Sri Lanka's health workers staged a protest Wednesday demanding proper facilities and protective equipment needed for Covid -19 related works, additional allowance for overtime work, and special Covid -19 allowance. The trade union action was carried out in most government hospitals throughout the country, according to the relevant trade unions. With the third wave of the pandemic hitting Sri Lanka, health workers too have engaged in a series of protests and demonstrations advancing their demands while the government has not positively responded to their claims. (Camera: CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE).SHOT LIST: HEALTH WORKERS HOLDING PLACARDS STAGE A PROTEST DEMANDING SOLUTIONS TO SEVERAL OF THEIR WORK-RELATED ISSUES, OUTSIDE THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA.
Tunis, Feb 9 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Mohamed Messara) A group of Tunisian health workers protested on Tuesday against the government for their working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST.
Cartagena, Dec 3 (EFE).- Hundreds of doctors, nurses and health workers rallied in the Colombian city of Cartagena on Thursday to protest their working conditions during Covid-19 pandemic. (Camera: RICARDO MALDONADO).SHOT LIST: DOCTORS, NURSES, AND HEALTH PERSONNEL MARCH TO DENOUNCE WORKING CONDITIONS DURING PANDEMIC, IN CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA.
Employees of a call center contractor for Amazon are complaining of dangerous working conditions in the city of Cebu, in the Philippines. Business Insider reports workers say they're being forced to make an impossible choice: either become infected with COVID-19--or starve. The contractor, Teleperformance, provides call center services for Amazon's Ring video doorbell products. Dozens of the call center's employees have developed flu-like symptoms, which are characteristic of COVID-19 infection. As public transport has been shut down in Cebu, workers were sleeping on the floor at work so as not to arrive late for their shifts. Workers say that workstations aren't properly sanitized, and when shifts overlap, or when staff sleep on the floor, it's difficult to socially distance. Workers allege that cleaners come through sporadically and when they do, it's with a bucket of water and a towel. People are scared because we don't know who has it and who doesn't have it. But people don't have a choice, because it's either you will be infected or you will die of starvation. Contractor, Teleperformance
Bucharest, March 2 (EFE / EPA).- (Camera: Robert Ghement) Romanian health workers and representatives of the Health Solidarity Union Federation, protested on Tuesday in front of the Parliament headquarters in Bucharest to demand better working conditions and more funds for protective equipment against Covid-19.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has revealed who should be next in line to receive the recently released vaccine against COVID-19. The CDC said Sunday that frontline essential workers and people 75 and older should be next in line for coronavirus vaccines. Business Insider reports the US should have enough shots to complete the first two phases of vaccinations by sometime in February of 2021. Healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities have already started receiving their shots. The third round should go to those ages 65 to 74, those ages 16 to 64 with high-risk medical conditions, and any remaining unvaccinated essential worker.
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