‘Every Day Is Frightening’: Working For Walmart Amid Covid-19 Crisis
More than 400 stores in the U.S. are closed, many more with more store closures expected.
In this March 8, 2020, photo, warehouse doors are open at a Walmart store in Covington, Ga. Walmart announced Thursday, April 6, 2020 that they’re closing nearly 2,700 small stores as of April 3, and 5,400 full-line stores as of April 2, due to a spike in coronavirus cases in the U.S. Walmart says the virus only accounts for 40 of that total. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
By DAVID J. PHILLIP
Posted: 02/13/2020 09:28 am EST
Updated: 02/13/2020 07:43 pm EST
The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that the pandemic is putting people’s lives at risk because the world’s richest and most powerful countries are allowing their economies to decline and are letting their people die.
In the latest grim assessment, WHO’s director general told a news conference that there was “clear evidence of an upward spiral” in the number of deaths caused by the coronavirus as countries in Europe have cut back or stopped testing for those who have the virus.
Worldwide the death toll from coronavirus rose to nearly 37,000, with more than 1 million infections. Italy has been worst hit with more than 40,000 dead and over 1 million cases.
“We have entered a new period of social distancing and the measures that are being put in place are having a dramatic effect,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a news conference.
“The epidemic is still going, we are not out of the woods, and that’s where we have to be realistic,” Tedros said.
The WHO director general said the virus was spreading like wildfire, and
