Coronavirus outbreaks are testing public health networks and the resolve of planners to reopen from pandemic shutdowns. Japan is relaxing its state of emergency, while in the Philippines virus fears complicated evacuation efforts ahead of a typhoon.
People wear masks as they wait for a bus in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 14, 2020. Leaving home in Los Angeles now requires bringing a face covering. Mayor Eric Garcetti said everyone must carry the coverings when they go outdoors and wear them when they are around people from outside their households.
Aid workers have been warning of the potential for a serious outbreak if the virus reached the camps. The increase in cases Thursday came just four days before key industries such as mining, construction and auto assembly were due to reopen. A key factor behind the fits-and-starts reopenings is pressure on overtaxed health systems facing crushing patient loads and struggling to obtain vital supplies of masks and other protective gear.
Medical workers last week staged a protest over inadequate staffing after the departure last week of the lung specialist at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital. So people with acute respiratory symptoms are being transported to Albuquerque, some two hours away. About 17 nurses were cut from the hospital’s workforce in March, at least 32 workers have tested positive for the virus and its intensive care unit is at capacity.
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