![]() ![]() MCCARTHY: At the end of a 14-day isolation away from the home where she lived and worked, Len-Len says her employer, a Hong Kong couple, told her time's up, come pack your things because you're terminated. Cooking dinner at the boarding house where she now stays, Len-Len says she's lost more than her health. ![]() Boosted with Pfizer in January, Len-Len tested positive for COVID-19 in February. Among them is 36-year-old Len-Len, a nickname she uses to conceal her identity. Swept up in this calamity are Filipina domestic workers, who number more than 200,000, the largest such community of women working as nannies and maids in Hong Kong. In this, one of the most densely populated places in the world, the COVID-19 death rate is reported to be the highest in the world. A series of photographs shows corpses in body bags being stored beside the beds of recovering patients. Cases are coming down from a one-day high of 56,000 earlier this month. JULIE MCCARTHY, BYLINE: Ambulances bearing stretchers continued to arrive at Hong Kong's hospitals over the weekend. Many are Filipino women, and as they fall ill, they are falling out of favor. As COVID-19 rages in Hong Kong with nearly half a million cases in the last two weeks, the virus is infecting some of the city's domestic workers. ![]()
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