@guardian 2 years ago Testing times: workers’ three years on Covid frontline comes to an end as NSW clinics close theguardian.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Covid-19 vaccinations will no longer be mandatory for New York City municipal workers, Mayor Eric Adams said Monday on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago After China’s reversal of “zero Covid” restrictions, their vast machinery of virus surveillance and testing collapsed, even as infections and deaths surged. Now, the authorities face another problem: Angry pandemic-control workers demanding wages and jobs. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 2 years ago To try to stem a rural Covid crisis, one province is trying to restrict gatherings at weddings, banquets and mahjong parlors. Another urged returning migrants to stay away from older people. Elsewhere, workers are going door to door to vaccinate villagers. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 2 years ago Although security forces reasserted control over protest hotspots in China this week, recent clashes suggested that poor, frustrated migrant workers may keep pushing back against the country’s “zero-Covid” measures. nyti.ms
@guardian 2 years ago ‘They are invisible’: the migrant workers struggling in wake of India’s Covid response theguardian.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Foxconn is shifting some production from its Covid-struck iPhone facility in central China to other sites, as many workers frightened by the outbreak leave the factory on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he was ending the Covid-19 vaccine mandate for private-sector workers on Nov. 1, rolling back one of the last pandemic restrictions in the city on.wsj.com
@guardian 3 years ago Covid used as an excuse to ‘decimate’ workers’ terms, say rail unions theguardian.com
@guardian 3 years ago ‘There’s a feeling of powerlessness’: UK healthcare workers on rising Covid numbers theguardian.com
@nytimesworld 3 years ago China's uncompromising zero-Covid policy has left millions unable to work. As the country enforces stringent lockdowns to battle outbreaks, migrant workers and recent college graduates have been hit hardest. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 3 years ago China has deployed more than 2,000 military medics and 10,000 medical workers to Shanghai in recent days to help tame the city’s coronavirus outbreak — a potential sign of the government’s concern that cases have spiraled out of local officials’ control. nyti.ms
@WSJ 2 years ago The White House plans to end the Covid-19 vaccine requirements for federal workers, federal contractors and international air travelers on May 11, as the pandemic public health emergency ends on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Workers in the U.S. are spending more time in the office again, with occupancy rates surpassing 50% for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic on.wsj.com
@BBCWorld 2 years ago Chinese workers making Covid test kits clash with police at factory bbc.in
@WSJ 2 years ago Technology-driven companies across industries have been laying off workers at the fastest pace since the Covid-19 pandemic started on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago At an iPhone factory in China, thousands of workers clashed with riot police and tore down barricades. Protests in the country are rising amid more Covid lockdowns and quarantines. The defiance is a test of Xi Jinping’s authoritarian leadership. nyti.ms
@WSJ 2 years ago Foxconn’s bid to continue iPhone production through a Covid outbreak depended on easing workers’ fears about a virus the government portrays as a deadly threat on.wsj.com
@BBCWorld 2 years ago Chinese workers flee Covid lockdown at iPhone factory bbc.in
@guardian 3 years ago Long Covid costing UK workers up to £1.5bn yearly in lost income, says IFS theguardian.com
@nytimesworld 3 years ago As dozens of Chinese cities on Tuesday issued heat alerts, with some temperature forecasts exceeding 104 degrees over the next 24 hours, health workers strapped packets of frozen treats to their white hazmat suits as they conducted outdoor Covid tests. nyti.ms
@guardian 3 years ago Who’s clapping now? UK healthcare workers with long Covid have been abandoned | Kelly Fearnley & Shaun Peter Qureshi theguardian.com
@nytimesworld 3 years ago India’s health ministry said the country would begin administering a third coronavirus shot for people between the ages of 18 and 60 beginning April 10. Until now, a third shot was only available for health care workers and people 60 years and older. nyti.ms
@WSJ 3 years ago Technology workers continue to flock to companies far away from Silicon Valley as fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic reshapes workplaces, labor markets and the economy, employers and industry analysts say on.wsj.com
@guardian 2 years ago Two-thirds of UK workers with long Covid have faced unfair treatment, says report theguardian.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Workers in the U.S. are spending more time in the office again, with occupancy rates surpassing 50% for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic on.wsj.com
@BBCWorld 2 years ago Chinese workers making Covid test kits clash with police at factory bbc.in
@nytimesworld 2 years ago The bodies of people who died of Covid may retain enough coronavirus to infect others, researchers in Japan have found. They caution family members and health care workers to be careful. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 2 years ago At an iPhone factory in China, thousands of workers clashed with riot police and tore down barricades. Protests in the country are rising amid more Covid lockdowns and quarantines. The defiance is a test of Xi Jinping’s authoritarian leadership. nyti.ms
@WSJ 2 years ago Workplaces are filling up again, but that doesn't mean Covid absenteeism is over. "It's an incredible strain on workers, and a lot of businesses can’t fill shifts." on.wsj.com
@guardian 2 years ago China braces for wave of workers fleeing iPhone factory in Covid-hit Zhengzhou theguardian.com
@nytimesworld 3 years ago Local officials in the Chinese city of Guangzhou issued a rare apology after community workers broke into dozens of homes to look for people who had tested positive for the coronavirus and others deemed close contacts. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 3 years ago As dozens of Chinese cities on Tuesday issued heat alerts, with some temperature forecasts exceeding 104 degrees over the next 24 hours, health workers strapped packets of frozen treats to their white hazmat suits as they conducted outdoor Covid tests. nyti.ms
@guardian 3 years ago ‘We won’t survive’: China’s migrant workers fear more lockdowns as Covid threat remains theguardian.com
@nytimesworld 3 years ago India’s health ministry said the country would begin administering a third coronavirus shot for people between the ages of 18 and 60 beginning April 10. Until now, a third shot was only available for health care workers and people 60 years and older. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 3 years ago Jilin, an industrial province in northeastern China, is at the front line of the country’s latest coronavirus outbreak, leaving medical workers and migrant laborers there struggling to cope with restrictions. nyti.ms
@guardian 2 years ago Two-thirds of UK workers with long Covid have faced unfair treatment, says report theguardian.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago After China’s abrupt reversal of “zero Covid” restrictions, the nation’s vast machinery of virus surveillance and testing collapsed, even as infections and deaths surged. Now, authorities face angry pandemic-control workers demanding wages and jobs. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 2 years ago To try to stem a rural Covid crisis, one province is trying to restrict gatherings at weddings, banquets and mahjong parlors. Another urged returning migrants to stay away from older people. Elsewhere, workers are going door to door to vaccinate villagers. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 2 years ago The bodies of people who died of Covid may retain enough coronavirus to infect others, researchers in Japan have found. They caution family members and health care workers to be careful. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 2 years ago At an iPhone factory in China, thousands of workers clashed with riot police and tore down barricades. Protests in the country are rising amid more Covid lockdowns and quarantines. The defiance is a test of Xi Jinping’s authoritarian leadership. nyti.ms
@guardian 2 years ago Video appears to show Chinese factory workers fleeing Covid-19 lockdown – video theguardian.com
@guardian 3 years ago Australia to end mandatory Covid isolation period and disaster payments for workers theguardian.com
@guardian 3 years ago Victoria calls on 400 extra health workers to combat rising Covid hospitalisations theguardian.com
@WSJ 3 years ago Heard on the Street: Uncertainties about mortality and health risk from Covid-19 might expose insurers to extended illness in coverage for workers on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago Beijing lifted restrictions on restaurant dining and many workers returned to their offices, but new Covid-19 flare-ups around China and fresh lockdowns in parts of Shanghai continue to pose economic risks on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 3 years ago China has deployed more than 2,000 military medics and 10,000 medical workers to Shanghai in recent days to help tame the city’s coronavirus outbreak — a potential sign of the government’s concern that cases have spiraled out of local officials’ control. nyti.ms
@WSJ 3 years ago Hong Kong could announce changes as soon as Sunday to Covid-19 rules that have isolated the financial center and led to an exodus of expatriate workers on.wsj.com