Companies to provide housing units to workers infected with coronavirus
The Kuwait government has adopted a set of decisions dealing with quarantine facilities and improving accommodation of workers amidst spread of coronavirus, Kuwait News Agency reported yesterday.
The cabinet assigned the Public Authority of Sport to hand over the halls in Tadhamon Sport Club to the quarantine team to be transformed into a field emergency unit to support Farwaniya Hospital, government spokesman Tareq Al-Mezrem told an online news conference following a cabinet meeting.
The cabinet, he added, asked all companies to provide housing units for their workers who were infected with coronavirus. Those units, he said, should be equipped with all necessary needs in line with Ministry of Health’s instructions. The government, said Al-Mezrem, assigned Ministry of Finance to lease hotels to be used as quarantine facilities.
The government also assigned the Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources to coordinate with Kuwait Flour Mills Company to provide fodder to livestock owners. The authority should also coordinate with Public Authority for Industry and the Environment Public Authority (EPA) to study possible establishment of light-industry factories within the farm land, used as recycling wasted fodder.
Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health has adopted a fresh mechanism for dealing with medical staff infected with the novel coronavirus (Covid-19).
If someone from medical teams contracts the virus, he or she will be home-quarantined and then be tested on the fifth day of infection, the ministry’s Undersecretary Dr Mustafa Redha said.
In case of negative tests, he or she will be allowed to get back to work, provided personal protection kits are used, he said. Confirmed positive cases will be placed under home quarantine and then be tested on the 12th or 13th day, and in case of negative tests, they will be able to return to work on the 14th day, he elaborated.
