Get our daily coronavirus email newsletter with all the news you need to know direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailMore than one in three ambulance staff have had Covid-19 – mainly catching it while at work, according to new research. The GMB said poor personal protective equipment (PPE) was to blame, claiming that ambulance workers report having to attend patients with flimsy gowns. Rachel Harrison, GMB national officer, said it was a “disgrace” that a year into the pandemic, staff were still not being given proper protection. (Image: FOCKE STRANGMANN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)She said: “Our paramedics, technicians and practitioners are expected to treat suspected coronavirus patients with nothing but a flimsy mask and a plastic apron. “GMB has called for guidance to be reviewed since the start of the pandemic and unless ministers sit up and take notice, our health service will be overwhelmed.”

Source: Daily Mirror February 08, 2021 00:00 UTC