What do you do if someone shows coronavirus symptoms at work?

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The Prime Minister says he wants everyone to follow these seven steps if someone at work is worried they have COVID-19.

If someone is at work when they find out or begin to suspect they have the virus, these are the seven steps SafeWork Australia says to follow:Remove the person from others. SafeWork Australia recommends giving the person a surgical mask, if possible.Tell health authorities by calling the national COVID-19 hotline on 1800 020 080, and follow the advice of health officials. Depending on your situation, authorities could give you specific advice.

Close contact means anyone who has been face-to-face for at least 15 minutes with the infected person or has been in the same space as them for two hours. Those employees should be sent home to isolate. If the infected worker had contact with large parts of the workplace, all employees may have to self-isolate for 14 days.The areas where these people have been should also be cleaned, this could involve the evacuation of these areas and cleaners should also use PPE.

 

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Offer them a tissue? Multiple choice would have been much easier.

Go to Centrelink dude ?

Keep ya distance? Ring the ABC? Or the Daily Telegraph? Phone a friend?

There are more than 1300 public and private hospitals in Australia. With under 500 hospitalisations why is there such a concern about supplies and beds? Why are we worrying about not having enough healthcare workers? Something doesnt add up. COVID2019AU

3.Transport: Workplaces should make sure the person has transport, either to their home or to a medical facility. Cab/Uber without telling driver the risk?

he would be banished like a leper

Call the police first urgently and then take a picture of them for the ABC failing propaganda agenda. CoronaIdiocy

What is the difference between flu symptoms and the Clovis-19’s?

Dettol & mercurochrome. And don't pick the scab.

Because everybody at work is medically qualified to identify the symptoms of COVID 19 are they?

Sardine Oil and......

Run

Burn em like in china

Drive & drop them to either SBS or ABC head office?

Keep calm.

Left right goodnight.

Run like you on fire..

Call the new leaders of Australia the CCP and they will come and take them away in a van, never to be seen again?

What a joke, a fear of spiders will activate cov-19, the boss yelling and screaming at everyone can cause the whole office to test positive.

Is this a trick question ?

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