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Global Nurses United Press Clips
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Australia
- Headline: Women are on the frontline in the war against coronavirus — and JobKeeper is failing them
- Headline: Temporary Emergency Measures To Manage Coronavirus Crisis
- Headline: HACSU says PPE still being rationed for workers at Tasmanian hospitals
- Headline: Death of mental health nurse at Liverpool Hospital to be investigated by NSW Police
- Headline: Workers On The Frontline Of The Pandemic In Australia Are Mostly Women
Brazil
- Manchete: Profissionais com covid-19 denunciam falta de EPIs em hospital privado de SP
Headline: Professionals with covid-19 report lack of PPE in a private hospital in SP - Manchete: Denúncias de falta de EPIs disparam e 740 enfermeiros são afastados (SP)
Headline: Complaints about lack of PPE go off and 740 nurses are removed (SP) - Manchete: Vulnerável a acidentes de trabalho, enfermagem está exposta à Covid-19
Headline: Vulnerable to work accidents, nurses are exposed to Covid-19
Canada
- Headline: Ontario nurses win court battle to secure access to PPE in long-term care homes
- Headline: Nurses have right to decide which personal protection equipment is needed when working in long-term-care homes with COVID-19
- Headline: Ontario long-term care nurses make shocking allegations about access to PPE during pandemic
- Headline: Ontario Nurses Association asks court to force London nursing home to provide masks
- Headline: Death toll climbs in London's seniors' facilities as COVID-19 numbers continue to stabilize
- Headline: ONTARIO LONG-TERM CARE NURSES MAKE SHOCKING ALLEGATIONS ABOUT ACCESS TO PPE DURING PANDEMIC
- Headline: Union says Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre failing to cooperate after privacy breach
- Headline: Ontario Superior Court rules in favour of nurses union over infection prevention measures at some long-term care facilities
- Headline: Order to reduce COVID-19 spread delayed as Alberta’s nurse union files grievance
- Headline: Order limiting long-term care staff to one site temporarily on hold
- Headline: AHS pushes back COVID-19 order that would restrict some health-care workers to one facility
- Headline: Sask nurses' union head worries people will get 'too comfortable' amid plans to re-open the economy
- Headline: Sunshine and warmer weather are here: SUN urges people to continue following physical distancing rules
- Headline: 'All it would take is one person': COVID-19 protective gear zones raise concerns for nurses, doctor, union
- Headline: More testing key to ending shutdown, premier says; state of emergency extended
- Headline: Policewoman, Teacher and Nurse Among Victims of Canada Mass Shooting
- Titre: Absents du réseau de la santé: «On a besoin de vous», dit Legault
Headline: Absent from the health network: "We need you", says Legault - Titre: Les employés des régions sollicités pour aller aider à Montréal
Headline: Employees of regions requested to go and help in Montreal - Titre: COVID-19: Des employés au bout du rouleau tombent au combat
Headline: COVID-19: Employees at the end of the line fall in battle - Titre: COVID-19: explosion de cas dans un CHSLD de Montréal jusque-là épargné
Headline: COVID-19: explosion of cases in a Montreal CHSLD previously spared - Titre: Explosion des cas de COVID-19 à Denis-Benjamin-Viger
Headline: Explosion of COVID-19 cases in Denis-Benjamin-Viger - Headline: Spike in coronavirus cases at Île-Bizard long-term care facility
Dominican Republic
Honduras
- Titular: Muere por COVID-19 una enfermera asignada al Mario Rivas de San Pedro Sula
Headline: A nurse assigned to Mario Rivas de San Pedro Sula dies from COVID-19 - Titular: EN HONDURAS LE DAN EL ÚLTIMO ADIÓS A ENFERMERA MUERTA POR CORANAVIRUS: VIDEO
Headline: IN HONDURAS GIVE THE LAST GOODBYE TO NURSES DEAD FROM CORANAVIRUS: VIDEO - Titular: Unos 3,000 asintomaticos andarian circulando en Cortes
Headline: About 3,000 asymptomatics would circulate in Cortes - Titular: El 16% de casos de COVID-19 en Honduras son personal médico
Headline: 16% of COVID-19 cases in Honduras are medical personnel - Titular: Hay 26 enfermeras, 16 medicos y 16 comerciantes, entre los contagiados
Headline: There are 26 nurses, 16 doctors and 16 business people, among those infected
India
- Headline: India's COVID-19 lockdown is among the strictest in the world but has yet to slow the spread
- Headline: PPE pecking order leaves nurses, ward boys at risk
- Headline: The Sisters We Forgot: Nurses Risk Their Lives To Save Ours, But Are We Grateful To Them?
- Headline: Nurses Body Petition HC To Get COVID Affected Professionals Back To Kerala
Italy
- Titulo: Coronavirus Messina, Nursind: “beffa per cento infermieri, senza incentivi e con maggiore rischio contagio”
Headline: Coronavirus Messina, Nursind: "mockery for one hundred nurses, without incentives and with greater risk of infection" - Titulo: Regione Lombardia: NurSind chiede 1500 Euro per gli infermieri
Headline: Lombardy Region: NurSind asks for 1500 Euros for nurses - Titulo: CORONAVIRUS - Nursind contro la Regione: «Non ci prenda in giro con i bonus»
Headline: CORONAVIRUS - Nursind against the Region: «Don't fool us with bonuses» - Titulo: Indennità infermieri, NurSind: «Irrispettosa verso gli ‘eroi’»
Headline: Nursing allowance, NurSind: «Disrespectful to the 'heroes'»
Ireland
- Headline: INMO says childcare plan “worse than irrelevant” for most healthcare staff
- Headline: 'Surprisingly old-fashioned': Union says government childcare offer 'does nothing' for vast majority of nurses
- Headline: INMO welcomes face mask policy in health service
- Headline: Coronavirus: 41 more die from COVID-19 in Ireland
- Headline: INMO ask public to redouble efforts
- Headline: Use of facemasks approved for frontline health staff
- Headline: Coronavirus Ireland: New rules mean all frontline healthcare workers must wear face masks
Kenya
New Zealand
- Headline: 'PPE breach' blamed for Christchurch healthcare workers catching Covid-19
- Headline: Government Urged To Prioritise Access To COVID Supplies And Vaccine Ahead Of Trade Rules
- Headline: Kai mahi hauora upset by inconsistent guidelines
- Headline: Coronavirus: 41 Canterbury DHB staff isolating after contact with confirmed cases
Paraguay
- Titular: Gremio de enfermeros pide esclarecer desaparición de tapabocas
Headline: Nurses union asks for clarification over missing face masks - Titular: Gremio de enfermería pide condiciones básicas para trabajar
Headline: Nursing union asks for basic conditions to work - Titular: Clínicas: enfermeros claman por insumos médicos para no contraer COVID-19
Headline: Clinics: nurses clamor for medical supplies to avoid contracting COVID-19
Philippines
- Headline: Increasing deaths among health workers ‘alarming’
- Headline: Health workers, nurses want regular testing
- Headline: Mass testing for health workers urged anew amid spike in COVID-19 positive cases
- Headline: Head nurse handling PGH COVID-19 ward dies
- Headline: War on virus: Recovering patients outpace fatalities for 5th straight day
- Headline: Breathing spell
- Headline: DOTr eyes 30% resumption of mass transport
Portugal
- Manchete: Sindicato dos enfermeiros exige ao Governo contratação de mais quadros
Headline: Nurses union requires the Government to hire more staff - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros Portugueses lamenta incapacidade do Governo em actualizar aumento salarial em Abril
Headline: Portuguese Nurses Union regrets Government's inability to update salary increase in April - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros critica Governo por não pagar aumento a pessoal da saúde
Headline: Nurses union criticizes Government for not paying increase to health personnel - Manchete: Sindicato critica número “impressionantemente baixo” de enfermeiros no Litoral Alentejano
Headline: Union criticizes “impressively low” number of nurses in the Alentejo coast
South Africa
- Headline: Denosa wants Ramaphosa to prioritise nurses' needs, salaries
- Headline: Nurses angry at being excluded from R500bn stimulus package
- Headline: DENOSA REJECTS COVID-19 REGULATION ALLOWING REDEPLOYMENT OF MEDICAL STAFF
- Headline: Healthcare workers 'at increasing risk' of catching the coronavirus
- Headline: Nurses’ union threatens stay-away if frontline workers aren’t taken care of
- Headline: No nurse will become a Covid-19 'sacrificial lamb’, Denosa warns govt over PPE shortages
South Korea
Spain
- Titular: Satse exige test del coronavirus para todas las enfermeras y fisioterapeutas de León
Headline: Satse demands a coronavirus test for all nurses and physical therapists in León - Titular: SATSE pide una compensación de 2.000 euros y 32 días libres por trabajar entre marzo y junio
Headline: SATSE demands compensation of 2,000 euros and 32 days off for working between March and June - Titular: Madrid no renovará contratos a “miles de enfermeras” que han trabajado en la crisis del coronavirus
Headline: Madrid will not renew contracts for "thousands of nurses" who have worked during the coronavirus crisis - Titular: Satse reclama más enfermeros para la residencia de mayores de Campolongo
Headline: Satse demands more nurses for the Campolongo nursing home - Titular: 14 enfermeras para cuidar durante todo el día a 134 mayores contagiados de coronavirus
Headline: 14 nurses to take care of 134 elderly people infected with coronavirus throughout the day
United Kingdom
- Headline: Coronavirus: Minute's silence in memory of NHS staff
- Headline: Half of nursing staff ‘under pressure to work without PPE’, finds RCN survey
- Headline: UK government faces mounting criticism over protection clothing shortages
- Headline: Coronavirus: Nurses write to health minister for PPE clarity
- Headline: Coronavirus: Stafford Hospital nurse dies with Covid-19
- Headline: 'IN AND OUT THE WORLD TOGETHER'
United States
- Headline: The Black Plague
- Headline: Health Care Workers Block Denver Protesters Calling For End To Stay-At-Home Orders
- Headline: US races to boost supplies of medical gear, PPE in fighting COVID-19
- Headline: Healthcare workers protest for vital protection equipment
- Headline: VA pledges more masks for medical staff who were rationing supplies
- Headline: ‘We’re beyond angered’: Fed up nurses file lawsuits, plan protest at White House over lack of coronavirus protections
- Headline: Coronavirus live updates: Senate reaches $484B stimulus deal; Trump, Cuomo agree to more testing; Georgia's reopening
- Headline: Nurses protest at White House to call attention to lack of PPE; honor those who died from COVID-19
- Headline: Nurses union to protest at White House Tuesday
- Headline: NY NURSES UNION SUES STATE OVER UNSAFE CORONAVIRUS WORKING CONDITIONS AS NATIONAL UNION PLANS WHITE HOUSE PROTEST
- Headline: Nurses Suspended for Refusing to Treat Covid Patients Without N95 Masks
- Headline: UC Irvine Medical Center nurses hold vigil calling for more masks, protective equipment
- Headline: Napa healthcare workers receive enhanced benefits during the pandemic
- Headline: In front of White House, nurses read names of colleagues killed by coronavirus
- Headline: Nurses protest unsafe conditions in front of White House
- Headline: Nurses Protest Lack of PPE Outside White House Holding Photos of Colleagues Who Have Died of Coronavirus
- Headline: Nurses hold White House protest over lack of protective gear from coronavirus
- Headline: Nurses protest outside White House for PPE
- Headline: Nurses read names of colleagues who died of COVID-19 in protest outside White House
- Headline: Nurses are protesting 'grossly inadequate and negligent' PPE and coronavirus testing while filing lawsuits against state officials and hospitals
- Headline: Protesters read names of nurses who have died from coronavirus outside the White House
- Headline: In front of the White House, nurses read names of colleagues who died of the coronavirus
- Headline: Nurses protest at White House to call attention to lack of PPE; honor those who died from COVID-19
- Headline: COVID: NURSES PROTEST IN FRONT OF WHITE HOUSE
- Headline: Nurses Protest at White House
- Headline: In front of the White House, nurses read names of colleagues who died of the coronavirus
- Headline: Nurses union plans White House protest over lack of protective equipment
- Headline: Nurses protest outside the White House over 'Trump's failure' to provide protective equipment amid the coronavirus pandemic- before they pause to remember 50 colleagues who have died from the virus
- Headline: Nurses protest at White House over lack of protective gear
- Headline: Hospital reinstates suspended Santa Monica nurses who demanded proper PPE to treat COVID-19 patients
- Headline: California Hospital Reinstates Suspended Nurses Who Asked For Masks
- Headline: Philly jail workers want judges to release more inmates because of coronavirus
- Headline: Coronavirus updates from April 21, 2020
- Headline: ‘We’re Tired of Being Treated as If We Are Expendable’
- Headline: Santa Monica hospital reinstates suspended nurses who demanded N95 masks to treat coronavirus patients
- Headline: ‘It's out of control’: VA nurses demand more protection against coronavirus
- Headline: FDA authorizes first at-home COVID-19 test
- Headline: Officials Weigh Health Risks Against Dangers of Economic Slump
- Headline: A day in the life of a DC nurse treating COVID-19 patients
- Headline: DC school nurse tests positive for coronavirus after group training at DC Health
- Headline: St. Paul hospital reprimands nurses for wearing
- Headline: St. Paul City Council unanimously approves resolution on United Hospital’s scrubs issue
- Headline: Nurses by the dozens put on furlough by Regions, Children’s and Mayo hospitals as millions of dollars lost weekly in coronavirus pandemic
- Headline: 10 more deaths, ICU use continues to climb in Minnesota
- Headline: HealthPartners will furlough 2,600 to cope with Covid-19
- Headline: The Fight for Workers Safety on the Job Deepens
- Headline: Dear me of three months ago
- Headline: 20 attorneys general call on 3M to prevent price gouging of N95 masks
- Headline: April 21, 2020 – Summary of the latest news on COVID-19
- Headline: Nurses Don’t Have Proper Protection to Fight the Coronavirus. They’re Begging Trump to Help.
- Titular: NY y California, las dos caras de la pandemia en EEUU
Headline: NY and California, the two faces of the pandemic in the US - Titular: Enfermeras protestan frente a la Casa Blanca por muertes de colegas en la pandemia
Headline: Nurses protest in front of the White House over deaths of colleagues in the pandemic - Titular: Enfermeras protestan afuera de la Casa Blanca por falta de equipos de protección personal
Headline: Nurses Protest Outside White House Over Lack Of Personal Protective Equipment - Titular: "Enfermeras llorando y con ataques de pánico", el drama en los hospitales de EEUU
Headline: "Nurses crying and panic attacks", the drama in US hospitals - Titular: Enfermeras en EEUU: 20 segundos para lavarse las manos no limpiará la sangre de los ‘héroes’ muertos
Headline: Nurses in the US: 20 seconds to wash hands will not clean the blood of dead 'heroes' - Titular: Enfermeras exigen fuera de Casa Blanca equipos de protección
Headline: Nurses demand protective equipment outside the White House - Titular: EE.UU.: Enfermeras protestan leyendo los nombres de trabajadores de salud muertos a causa del COVID-19
Headline: USA: Nurses protest reading the names of health workers killed by COVID-19 Copiado de la página - Titular: Enfermeras exigen fuera de la Casa Blanca equipos de proteccion
Headline: Nurses demand protective equipment outside the White House - Titular: ¿Dónde están los equipos de protección? Enfermeras protestan frente a la Casa Blanca por la falta de materiales
Headline: Where is the protective equipment? Nurses Protest Outside White House Over Lack of Materials - Titular: Enfermeras exigen fuera de la Casa Blanca equipos de protección
Headline: Nurses Demand Protective Gear Outside the White House - Headline: Nurses read names of 50 dead colleagues at White House protest
- Headline: What the Nurses’ Protests Tell Us About the Reality of the Pandemic in the United States
- Headline: They were placed on leave for refusing to work without N95 masks. Covid-19 unit nurses are now back at work
- Headline: Nurses step up, citizens act out, governors recalibrate: News from around our 50 states
- Headline: MICHIGAN HEALTH CARE WORKER WITH CORONAVIRUS SYMPTOMS DIES AFTER BEING TURNED AWAY FROM HOSPITAL FOUR TIMES
- Headline: A WHITE HOUSE VENTILATOR AND PPE SHARING PLAN COULD CALM FUTURE POLITICAL BATTLES
- Headline: Biden Says OSHA Isn’t Doing Enough To Protect Workers’ From COVID-19
- Headline: VA medical facilities struggle to cope with coronavirus
- Headline: UNION MEMBERS RALLYING OUTSIDE VA HOSPITAL PROTEST LACK OF PPE, SICK LEAVE AND HAZARD PAY OFFERED TO STAFF
- Headline: Santa Monica nurses, suspended for demanding masks, back on job
- Headline: Research Medical nurse just shy of retirement dies from coronavirus, union says
- Headline: Nurses read names of colleagues who died of COVID-19 in protest outside White House
- Headline: Covid-19 news: US not involved in global WHO plan to tackle pandemic
- Headline: A Kansas City Nurse Who Raised Concerns About A Lack Of Protective Equipment Dies Of COVID-19
- Headline: Nurses outside White House demand gov’t enforce job safety
- Headline: Hospital Lets Nurses Return After COVID-19 Gear Objections
- Headline: VA medical facilities struggle to cope with the coronavirus
- Headline: Photos of the week: Congress dons face masks as protests abound
- Headline: VA centers' shortages, risks under scrutiny; veterans agency defends covid-19 response despite workers’ claims, documents
- Headline: Trauma On The Pandemic's Front Line Leaves Health Workers Reeling
- Headline: Photos show how shortages are forcing doctors and nurses to improvise coronavirus PPE from snorkel masks, pool noodles, and trash bags
- Headline: Hospital reinstates 10 nurses who were suspended for refusing to care for coronavirus patients without N95 mask
- Headline: Inside nurses’ calls for more protection at Watsonville Community Hospital
- Headline: THEY WERE PLACED ON LEAVE FOR REFUSING TO WORK WITHOUT N95 MASKS. COVID-19 UNIT NURSES ARE NOW BACK AT WORK
- Headline: COVID-19 update: More cases in Wyandotte, Johnson counties; KC nurse dies from virus
- Headline: Family, coworkers hold vigil for nurse who died from COVID-19
- Headline: Fact check: Biden says OSHA isn’t doing enough to protect workers’ from COVID-19
- Headline: Even harder than shutting down: How does Newsom reopen California?
- Headline: Nurses and Community Save Emergency Room on Chicago's South Side
- Headline: Remember the dead: fight for the living
- Headline: Photos: Regional Medical Center nurses protest planned closure of maternity ward
- Headline: Coworkers at Research Medical Center say nurse's death was preventable with proper PPE