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FILE - In this March 11, 2020 file photo, members of the media attend a news conference as a robot sprays hydrogen peroxide during a demonstration in a train carriage in Hong Kong. As the global viral pandemic grows, the need for cleaning and disinfecting has surged. Cleaners and domestic workers are essential in the effort to contain the virus. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, FIle)

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Vital but vulnerable, cleaners hold the line against a virus
March 19, 2020 1:48 p.m.

Vital but vulnerable, cleaners hold the line against a virus

NEW YORK (AP) — When hospitals need to prep a room for the next coronavirus test, when jetliners discharge their passengers at the gate, when suburbanites start to take sanitary precautions more seriously, the call goes out: