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In this Jan. 24, 2021, file photo, a police officer takes pictures of a burned-out coronavirus testing facility in the fishing village of Urk in the Netherlands after it was set on fire the night before by rioting youths protesting on the first night of a nationwide curfew. A new report by the Geneva-based Insecurity Insight and the University of California, Berkeley’s Human Rights Center identified hundreds of attacks linked to fear or frustration around the coronavirus against health care workers and facilities in the past year.

In this Jan. 24, 2021, file photo, a police officer takes pictures of a burned-out coronavirus testing facility in the fishing village of Urk in the Netherlands after it was set on fire the night before by rioting youths protesting on the first night of a nationwide curfew. A new report by the Geneva-based Insecurity Insight and the University of California, Berkeley’s Human Rights Center identified hundreds of attacks linked to fear or frustration around the coronavirus aga…

March 2, 2021

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COVID-19 pandemic fuels attacks on health workers globally
March 2, 2021 12:58 a.m.

COVID-19 pandemic fuels attacks on health workers globally

Two Nigerian nurses were attacked by the family of a deceased COVID-19 patient. One nurse had her hair ripped out and suffered a fracture. The second was beaten into a coma.