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The spike in Covid-19 cases has raised fears that the mining industry is becoming a new epicentre, with even more mine workers, including those who had been at home in neighbouring countries, set to return to work in the coming weeks.

 

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Is this only isolated to NW? I doubt, before 27 March 2020 asymptomatic persons were among those that left production hubs to their home farms & villages (hence EC spiked late April). Now the opposite is inevitable bcos asymptomatic left their homes & will show symptoms at work.

CovidAfrica The mining companies really don't care for their workers, social distancing is impossible when working underground, where we actually need to work as a team, We are just a number that can easily be rep3by the next for these mine stakeholders.

The minimum industry is a high risk prone organization to Covid 19. The pandemic drill dictates that mining, petroleum companies, forestry, paper manufacturing industry are high risk prone organizations to Covid 29

We can't mine from our own homes, it's bad

I dont understand all the so called gloom and doom about the figures. What do people expect in a country with at least 57million where millions live in close proximity and thousands never have had the luxury of running water and electricity?

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