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The Citizen reports that the SA Police Service’s national headquarters in Pretoria has been closed down temporarily after a member tested positive for Covid-19.
This was confirmed by national spokesperson Brigadier Vish Naidoo, who said one of the staff members in the HR department on the building’s sixth floor received a positive test result on Wednesday afternoon. The staff member immediately alerted the unit’s commander, who ordered a precautionary shutdown of the entire building. Naidoo advised further: “The commander activated the protocol we have in place, which consists of evacuation, sanitation, screening and testing.” The building will remain closed until Friday morning, when it is hoped employees will be able to return to work. Naidoo could not say how many staff members worked on the floor in question or how many might have come in contact with the infected member. But, he gave assurances that all necessary work would continue, despite the building’s closure, since “staff can all work from home, as they have all been given the necessary equipment to continue working remotely”.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Earl Coetzee at The Citizen
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