PRIORITY ON SHORING UP SMEs

A healthcare personnel taking a Covid-19 swab sample from a worker. Employers maintain that the source of workplace infection is usually external. – K.K. SHAM/The Star

THE term “workplace cluster” insinuates that factories are a hotspot of coronavirus infection but employers have pointed out that these places are not Covid-19 ground zero.

Employers reiterate that the source of infection is usually external, brought in to production plants from outbreaks and sporadic cases in the community outside.