Ghana: BOST Shuts Down Head Office After 46 Staff Tested Positive For Covid-19

Ghana’s strategic oil company, Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) has shut down its head office at Dzorwulu after 46 employees tested positive for the novel Coronavirus.

The company has, thus, asked all staff at the Dzorwulu office to work from home.

According to the company, all the 46 staff have been asked to also self-isolate with immediate effect.

It would be recalled that energynewsafrica.com reported that two staff of BOST had contracted the Covid-19 on July 2.

The cases were detected after mass testing of staff was conducted at the head office.

“The Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited would like to announce for the information of the general public that it has closed down its head office at Dzorwulu in the Ayawaso West Municipality from Monday, 6th July, to Monday 13th July, 2020.

“This has become necessary due to a mass testing of staff carried out by the company at the head office in the wake of a staff of the IT Department testing positive for the virus. After the mass testing, a number of staff tested positive and arrangements are being made for their treatment,” a statement from the Corporate Communications Department of BOST said.

The statement said its head office would be fumigated to “ensure the safety of staff is not compromised when work resumes.”

The company has also given the assurance that the development would not “negatively impact the operations of the company since all staff have the needed facilities and enhancements to work from home within the period.”

BOST is the second institution in the West Africa nation’s oil sector where workers have tested positive for COVID-19.

The first was about 60 workers at the country’s jubilee fields testing positive for the disease. It followed two confirmed cases of Tullow Oil’s subcontractors.

Source:www.energynewsafrica.com