Covid-19, the virus with an aversion to trade unions
2021
23
Spring
4-7
epidemic disease ; elder care ; older people ; trade union ; trade union document
Older people
English
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"At the time of writing, March 2021, more than two and a half million people worldwide have died following complications associated with Covid-19. Although vaccination campaigns are gradually making progress, we have sadly not yet seen the light at the end of the tunnel of the greatest health crisis to hit the world since the "Spanish" flu pandemic of 1918. And nowhere has the situation been more dire than in care homes for elderly people — a sector which, not incidentally, has been prey to a great drive towards privatisation and deregulation."
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