Giant Margo City Has Not Been Determined As A Covid-19 Cluster, This Is Why

DEPOK, KOMPAS.com – Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling Covid-19 Depok City has not set retail Giant Extra Margo City as cluster transmission of Covid-19 following the finding of one of its employees being infected with the corona virus (Covid-19).

“Still waiting for the results of the swab test for 30 people. Waiting for the results of the Ministry of Health’s BBTKLPP,” Task Force spokesman Dadang Wihana told reporters, Friday (14/8/2020).

The discovery of a positive case of Covid-19 at Giant Margo City began when one of its employees experienced a high fever when they were about to come to work on July 26, 2020.

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After being treated and examined, it was found that the employee was positive for Covid-19 in early August 2020.

Since then, a team of 75 Giant Margo City employees have been quarantined in their respective residences and retailers have replaced them with new teams and cleaned the retail area.

The Depok City Government had promised to conduct PCR swab tests on the 75 employees, but apparently only 30 employees were tested for swabs.

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“75 employees were screened first. Those who had close contact with 30 positive cases, so that only 30 were tested for swabs. The rest and replacement employees were subjected to a rapid test,” said Dadang.

“Of those who took the rapid test, 15 were reactive. We asked them to immediately test the swab,” he added.

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