Coronavirus: give street cleaners surgical masks or risk them walking off the job, Hong Kong warned

Tens of thousands of street cleaners and sanitation workers in Hong Kong will run out of protective face masks in two weeks and will have to stop working, their employers have said, warning piles of rubbish could be left in the streets amid the deadly coronavirus outbreak.Critics and campaigners accused officials of passing the buck and said they had a responsibility to ensure adequate protection for the cleaners, who work for government contractors.Hong Kong is battling a novel strain of…