CITU wants safety gear for frontline workers

Coimbatore: Frontline workers in the Covid-19 fight should be provided with protective gear and the families of the workers who died due to the infection be given compensation, members of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) said on Thursday.
CITU members, who held a protest in front of the union office at Kattoor in the city, said doctors, nurses, sanitary workers, police personnel, workers who provide drinking water and electricity, and media personnel have been working during the Covid-19 pandemic. But proper protective gear has not been given to all. Because of this, some of them had contracted the infection and died. TNN