Coronavirus has now caused thousands of lives and millions of face masks in the world. Countries are currently reaching out to their neighboring countries to donate face masks to protect each citizen from the deadly virus-- that may be transmitted through droplets of sneeze and cough from the COVID-19 positive victim. Due to this, a shortage of these medical outfits now arises. And everyone is now seeking help from sewers in towns.
Sewing machine now becoming the newest hero in Coronavirus Pandemic
As you thanked all the lives of health workers, military men, and other frontliners in this pandemic, the Reuters reported that we should also thank the lives of sewers or tailors in our nearest towns.
This is due to the reason that sewers are now becoming more in demand to create face masks, gloves, and other protective gear to lessen the shortage from medical equipment due to COVID-19.
According to the report, Smita Paul is just one of the sewers in the Bay Area that was once had a small fashion business and now turned her sewing machine on making face masks for hospital staff. This was after the Coronavirus spread news came up, and she and her friends decided to help with the least thing that they can do for the community.
"We are all horrified. The idea of one of my friends having to go into this situation without having any protective gear, I just can't imagine," said Paul. "If we can do one little thing, we're going to do it."
To boost the production of more face masks and other health gear in the Bay Area, Paul also posted videos of how to make face masks on her Youtube account as a guide to all people that aimed to also help their communities in creating face masks.
"We're all volunteering, and it just shows what a group of concerned citizens can do. We'll probably get 100 masks out today," said Paul, whose company, Indigo Handloom, is partnering with community members, including City College of San Francisco's fashion department, to increase mask production.
Shortage of face masks, gloves, and others reported in most countries
Hospital staffs around the world, especially in the United States, are now worrying about their lives as the supply for face masks and other protective medical gears are slowly decreasing day by day.
Craig Enis, 50, works as a registered nurse at Generations Healthcare in Walnut Creek, California. He is just one of the million nurses and hospital staff in the world that seek help from the authorities and other entities to provide more supply of protective hospital gears. Some of them worry that they might get the virus themselves if authorities can't provide proper safety items soon.
"N95-masks are just nonexistent right now. It's incredibly scary because I'm a single father, and they have no choice but to be with me, so whatever I come home with, they're exposed to," Enis said.
