Workers

As the months passed, people began disappearing. Chairs once occupied by garment workers inside the Los Angeles Apparel factory sat empty. Rumors circulated about how the missing workers had gotten sick, or even died, of COVID-19.Mariana, a 56-year-old woman from El Salvador, felt afraid every day. She said workers like herself received little or delayed…

Dr. Scott Miscovich of Premier Medical Group Hawaii said his team was brought in to Pearl City Nursing Home to test about 100 residents and 200 workers on Friday and Saturday. Four residents and two staff members tested positive for COVID-19. He said a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus late Thursday, who believed…

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — As the coronavirus spreads in Africa, it threatens in multiple ways those who earn their living on the streets — people like Mignonne, a 25-year-old sex worker with HIV.The lockdown in Rwanda has kept many of her customers away, she said, so she has less money to buy food. And when…

Eskom has been implementing load reduction in a number of areas in Gauteng. Two Eskom employees were kidnapped on Sunday and forced to restore illegal connections in Ekurhuleni.Eskom has been implementing load reduction in parts of Gauteng owing to illegal connections and meter bypasses.The power utility said it would be pressing charges.Eskom employees were on…

June 21, 2020Updated 7:09 a.m. ETNew York City’s ambitious contact-tracing program, a crucial initiative in the effort to curb the coronavirus, has gotten off to a worrisome start just as the city’s reopening enters a new phase on Monday, with outdoor dining, in-store shopping and office work resuming.The city has hired 3,000 disease detectives and…