frontline workers
12 Apr 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, frontline workers need masks and morale-boosters. Teri Schultz visits a Belgian sweet shop that offers both.
11 Apr 2020
This week, we're shining the spotlight on the people who are keeping France running during the unprecedented lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Doctors and nurses are, of course, working around the clock to save lives. But there are many others who are doing essential, but less celebrated jobs: cleaners, cashiers, rubbish collectors and truckers. They are France's invisible but frontline workers; men and women working behind the scenes to keep the country going during these extraordinary times. We
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