The government is planning to send more final year nursing students and graduates who have yet to be certified to the front lines of the pandemic to reduce the burden on overwhelmed health workers.
The nursing students will monitor coronavirus patients with mild symptoms, while the graduates will assist with basic nursing tasks at Covid-19 health facilities. They will not tend to patients directly without supervision.
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