Service-oriented trades that tend to employ a lot of women — such as health care, education and retail — also involve a lot of interaction with the public. No field of work is more exposed to the risk of infection than the health care sector, which is about 80 per cent female. Health care workers at riskA study released this week by the Canadian Federation of Nurses' Unions (CFNU) revealed that 13,000 workplace injury claims relating to COVID-19 exposure have been filed already by Canadian health care workers. "Nationally, health care workers comprise almost 20 per cent of all COVID‐19 infections in Canada, about double the global health care worker infection rate," says the report. It would be months later before all health care workers began to receive the personal protective equipment (PPE) they needed.

Source: CBC News October 12, 2020 07:52 UTC