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Coke's biggest manufacturing plant in Gauteng shuts down after employee tests positive for Covid-19

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newsThe Star reports that Coca Cola has been forced to shut down one of its biggest manufacturing plants in Gauteng after an employee tested positive for Covid19.  

According to an internal memo sent to employees at the Devland manufacturing plant on Monday, a worker with the respiratory disease was on the site on Sunday.  “We have already initiated a tracing process to identify all employees who may have been in contact with the positive colleague, these employees will undergo testing,” said MD Velaphi Ratshefola, who added that the company has increased rigid health and safety protocols.  The plant has 222 employees.  Coca Cola currently has 14 plants operating nationally.  Also, City Power was forced to shut its doors on Wednesday after an employee at the entity’s main warehouse in Reuven, Booysens, tested positive for Covid-19.  The person is in self-isolation at home.  Mediclinic Morningside announced on Wednesday that it would not accept new admissions, apart from emergencies, to reduce the transmission of coronavirus in the facility.  The hospital said four patients and 15 staff members, including nine health-care workers, tested positive for the virus and were currently isolated.  In KZN, Netcare’s Kingsway Hospital in Amanzimtoti stopped taking in new patients after discovering a Covid-19 case in one of its wards.  This is Netcare’s second hospital to be forced to cancel new patient intake after St Augustine’s in Durban had to temporarily close most of its sections.

  • Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Tebogo Monama, Chulumanco Mahamba and Bongani Hans at The Star
  • Read too, Mediclinic Morningside closes after staff and patients contract Covid-19, at DispatchLIVE


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