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Northwick Park Hospital in London, UK, on March 20, 2020.
- Three UK nurses forced to wear bin bags because of a lack of protective equipment for front-line medical workers during the coronavirus crisis have tested positive for the illness, $4
- The nurses, who work at a hospital in northwest London, were pictured wearing trash bags on their heads and feet.
- Associations of British medics and nurses say that their members' health is being placed in danger because of the lack of protective equipment.
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Three nurses in the UK who were forced to wear trash bags because of a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, $4.
The nurses, who work at the Northwick Park Hospital in northwest London, were pictured wearing clinical waste bags on their heads and feet because of a lack of protective equipment.
They were diagnosed with COVID-19, a senior source at the hospital told the publication.
The hospital was the first in the UK to declare a critical incident due to a shortage of equipment after a huge influx in March of people diagnosed with the coronavirus.
According to the publication, on one ward 50% of staff have contracted the virus amid equipment shortages.
Despite attempts to address a lack of PPE by British ministers and NHS bosses, there are still widespread shortages in hospitals in the UK.
The Doctors Association UK, an association of medics, $4 that doctors are being "bullied" into treating COVID-19 patients and told to "hold their breath", because they don't have masks, gowns and other protective equipment.
The Royal College of Nurses wrote to the $4 describing the lack of PPE for nurses as "unconscionable."
On Wednesday, $4 that the lack of equipment is "fundamentally compromising" the care nurses can give to patients.
It said that, as vital equipment fails to reach front-line workers, nurses are being forced to buy their own equipment, share it or reuse it.
To date, $4 have been killed by the coronavirus.
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