Covid-19: Odisha govt issues advisory to manage workplaces after detection of positive cases

BHUBANESWAR: The state general administration (GA) department on Thursday issued advisory to manage the workplace once a positive case is reported in government offices.
The advisory has been issued after some government employees, working in the state secretariat, have even identified to be Covid infected, said an order issued by GA secretary Sanjeev Chopra.
As part of the advisory, immediate isolation a person infected with Covid-19 or having symptoms will be done either to home isolation or Covid treatment facility. The work will be done in coordination with Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC).
After isolation of the infected person, contact tracing will be done by the Rapid Response Team of the BMC followed by quarantine of contacts as per the category like high risk/low risk.
Workplace disinfection will be done as per the guidelines of disinfection of common public places including offices.
“If there is one or two cases reported, places/areas visited by the patient in the past 48 hours will be closed/sealed for entry. There is no need to close the entire office building/halt work in other areas of the office. The work can be resumed after following the laid down disinfection protocol,” said the advisory.
In case of a large outbreak, the entire building has to be closed for 48 hours after thorough disinfection. All the staff will work from home till the building is adequately disinfected and is declared fit for reoccupation, said the advisory.
Disinfection will be undertaken with particular attention to high contact and highly visited areas. The entire furniture and equipment used by the persons will be thoroughly disinfected.
Employees have been asked to rigorously follow use of face masks, frequent hand washing and social distancing.
The order said that the head of office or Covid compliance officer will be responsible for implementation of the protocol after Covid positive case is identified in that office.
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