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Government Relaxes Testing Regulations For Companies.

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The government has reversed a recent directive which compelled companies to test their workers for Covid-19 before resuming operations under the relaxed lockdown regime.

According to the Minister of Information , Publicity and Broadcasting ,Monica Mutsvangwa, the decision came after a realisation   that companies are experiencing difficulties in accessing the Rapid Results test kits for testing their employees. 

“Statutory Instrument 99 of 2020 requires companies in the commercial and industrial sectors which are opening for the first time during the period of lockdown to have all their employees tested for the Covid-19 virus using the rapid results test.

“This is a condition precedent. It has since transpired that companies are experiencing difficulties in accessing the rapid results test kits for testing their employees.

“Government has decided that, pending companies acquiring the required test kits to test their employees, companies will be permitted to open subject to the following conditions being met in relation to their employees:

“Temperature tests upon entering work premises, hand sanitisers upon entry to sanitise their hands, each employee to wear a face mask in appropriate form and employees to practise social distancing in the work place.

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“In the event that an employee has a temperature which is above that which the Ministry of Health and Child Care considers requires further testing, then such employee shall not be admitted to the workplace, but shall immediately be referred to a facility of the Ministry of Health and Child Care to enable a Rapid Result Test, to be administered on such employee,” she said.

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