Hartalega confirms 35 employees test positive for Covid-19

 

COVID-19 | Hartalega Holdings Bhd has confirmed that 35 of its employees tested positive for Covid-19, 20 of them are at the Bestari Jaya operations and 15 at the Next Generation Integrated Glove Manufacturing Complex (NGC) in Sepang.

The group said affected employees were under medical care at a government healthcare facility, while all primary contacts over the past 14 days have been identified, placed in quarantine and will subsequently be tested before being permitted to return to work.

“As a result, some production lines have temporarily shut down, with an estimated capacity loss to be less than 0.5 percent of annual output,” it said in a statement today.

Hartalega added that thorough disinfection of all areas where the affected individuals were present had been carried out by a third-party professional.

The group said Covid-19 tests were conducted on a total of 8,772 personnel, including outsourced vendors such as security personnel and canteen operators on Dec 7 and were completed on Dec 10, in line with the National Security Council’s directive for all foreign workers to undergo testing.

Chief executive officer Kuan Mun Leong said the stringent measures have enabled the group to record a significantly low positive rate of only 0.4 percent of all its employees.

“While it is unfortunate that we have positive cases among our employees, we are encouraged that good living conditions and high standards of our workers’ accommodation, which surpass required standards, have allowed us to contain the number of cases,” he said. 

Kuan added that the group would continue to review and improve its Covid-19 prevention measures and is looking into implementing a periodical Antigen Rapid Test Kit testing for all employees moving forward.

- Bernama