Here’s how some of the countries worst-hit by the coronavirus are dealing with shortages of protective equipment for healthcare workers:
of COVID-19 hit 803,000 on Tuesday, while the number is expected to hit a million this week. Almost 40,000 people have died, and 172,000 have recovered to date.: The World Health Organization advises the use of PPE, but admits that disrupted supply chains, compounded with panic-buying and hoarding of vital protective equipment needed by frontline workers, has left a shortage.
The WHO has shipped at least 500,000 PPE kits around the world, but at the start of the month warned of dwindling supplies. Carmakers, plane makers and fashion brands are among the unlikely contenders being contracted and volunteering to shift their production lines to making PPE and ventilators.
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