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After 15 positives, BEST starts taking temperature of staff at all bus depots

Bashed by unions over poor safety standards, city's only lifeline amid lockdown defends itself saying 13 patients were exposed to the virus elsewhere

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BEST workers get their temperature checked before entering a bus depot

BEST workers get their temperature checked before entering a bus depot

After 15 cases of Coronavirus among its workforce, including one death, the BEST Undertaking, that is currently the city's lifeline, has begun daily temperature checks of employees at entry points of all bus depots.

BEST officials said that of the 15 cases, two have been categorised under 'occupational exposure' — that is, the virus was probably caught by the patients at work. In the rest of the cases, employees came to work after already being exposed to the virus elsewhere. For example, one of the infected employees was residing in a Containment Zone and the one who died had visited his native place and had been hospitalised.

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