MANILA( AFP)-Exhausted nurses in the Philippines are struggling to care for patients as colleagues contract Covid-19 or quit a profession that was dangerously understaffed even before the pandemic. The country is enduring a record rise in infections, fuelled by the Delta variant, with the Health Department reporting a nursing shortfall of more than 100, 000-forcing those left to work long hours for little pay on often precarious short-term contracts." They are tired and burnt out," nursing direc