Here's to Know Ceramica Cleopatra's Measures to Face Coronavirus

On Monday, MP Mohamed Aboul Enein, Chairman of Ceramica Cleopatra Group (CCG) issued many precautionary decisions aimed to maintain the lives of more than 25 thousand workers from coronavirus in his factories.

The newly-announced decisions to address coronavirus outbreak as follow:

1- Reducing the number of workers in all factories and giving them rotational leaves, in addition to minimizing the working shifts from three to two.

2- All workers will be given their usual salaries and bounces without any cuts.

3- The CCG also decided to grant a full-paid leave for all female workers, the elderly people, workers with special needs, and those who are with underlying health conditions until the end of March.

4- It also decided to give a 14-day compulsory leave for any worker showing symptoms of the common flu to stay at home.

5- Aboul Enein instructed the group’s medical department to daily check the temperature for all workers, whether during work or at rest.

6- He also decided to distribute prevention tools, including masks and medical gloves, to all workers, assigning security bodies to follow the workers ’commitment to wear them.

7 All offices, departments, restrooms, restaurants, and buses allocated for transporting workers must be sterilized at least twice a day.

8- The ban of using metal or glass tools for serving meals and drinks and replacing them with disposable ones, in addition to organizing the entry of workers to restaurants to prevent their congestion.

9- The number of workers inside the buses has been decreased by 50% to prevent any congestion, as well as the closure of all mosques, restrooms and the administrative building in order to ensure the safety of all workers.

10- The CCG also decided to form an emergency committee in Suez and the 10th of Ramadan factories, for taking any measures and decisions to face the deadly virus.

These decisions come within the framework of the CCG's keenness to preserve the health and safety of all workers in light the exceptional and critical period facing by Egypt and the whole world in addressing the coronavirus epidemic.