Hong Kong’s unsung frontline workers carry on cleaning, serving, keeping Covid-19 at bay under more risks, less pay

Cleaner Chiu has not missed a day of work since the Covid-19 outbreak started, despite seeing some of his colleagues giving up for fear of infection.The 53-year-old, in the job for more than 20 years, cleans residential and commercial buildings, as well as shopping malls in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay and North Point. Asking to be identified by only his surname, he says the work is strenuous and underappreciated, but the pandemic has made it more challenging.He says he has never experienced such…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3096511/hong-kongs-unsung-frontline-workers-carry-cleaning-serving