TOKYO - Some nurses in Japan are incensed at a request from Tokyo Olympic organizers to have 500 of them dispatched to help out with the games. Olympic officials have said they will need 10,000 medical workers to staff the games, and the request for more nurses comes amid a new spike in the virus with Tokyo and Osaka under a state of emergency. “We must definitely stop the proposal to send as Olympic volunteers those nurses, tasked with protecting the fight against the serious coronavirus pandemic,“ Morita said. Even before the pandemic, Japanese nurses were overworked and poorly paid compared with their counterparts in the United States or Britain. He said many nurses worry about getting infected themselves, with vaccination rates in Japan reported at only 1-2%.

Source: thestar May 03, 2021 01:56 UTC