CALIFORNIA - Los Angeles - Essential worker testing
“Starting tomorrow, health care professionals, grocery store workers, first responders and critical government personnel can get a test even if you don’t have symptoms,” Garcetti said. “We wish we could open that up to everybody, but I think we all know that we have firefighters and police officers, doctors, nurses, janitors at hospitals, folks that are in grocery stores and pharmacies that are putting themselves out on the line and we want to make sure that they are healthy.”
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PERU -
In Peru, bodies mount and masks are reused with region’s second highest coronavirus cases
“We have to use three masks throughout the month, so we re-use,” said a nurse. “Where I work, colleagues have caught the disease.”
LIMA, Peru—Peru’s hospitals are straining to deal with a rapid rise in the number of COVID-19 infections, with bodies being kept in hallways, masks being repeatedly reused, and protests breaking out amongst medical workers concerned over their safety.
Peru has the second highest number of cases in South America after Brazil, despite a tough lockdown aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus.
Confirmed numbers have risen sharply in recent days, passing 17,000 on Tuesday, double the figure from just one week ago. Almost 500 people have died.