Shops, hospitals shut as virus strikes frontline workers

16 April 2020 - 06:03 By JEFF WICKS
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Pandemic frontline workers in retail and healthcare have begun to feel the pinch.
Pandemic frontline workers in retail and healthcare have begun to feel the pinch.
Image: 123RF/ GUI YONGNIAN

Pandemic frontline workers in retail and healthcare have begun to feel the pinch, with shops and hospital units across SA shuttered because of staff infections.

With a lack of protective equipment and little government intervention, they feel critically exposed.

 

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