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TimesLIVE reports that Statistics SA (Stats SA) employees and contract workers from Gauteng attending a training course at a Pretoria hotel have been asked to stay in their rooms after four people in the group tested positive for Covid-19.
The workshop, at the St George's Hotel, was to train workers for a planned census pilot project due to be carried out in late January 2021. “Despite adhering to Covid-19 protocols such as social distancing, sanitising, wearing face masks and ensuring that we did not exceed the limited 180 people, we have four positive cases,” said Stats SA spokesperson Trevor Oosterwyk. It is unclear whether the persons concerned had been infected before arriving at the workshop or whether they picked up the virus during the training course. The training course, scheduled to finish on Tuesday, will carry on virtually. “We are going to screen everyone,” said Oosterwyk, adding that nobody had been detained in their rooms. “We have asked people to remain in their rooms. But they are adults,” he stated.
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