DVLA centre has 'UK's worst Covid workplace outbreak' with 535 cases

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Staff have allegedly been encouraged to come into work even if they are displaying coronavirus symptoms.

Staff at a DVLA centre in Swansea have allegedly been encouraged to come into work even if they are displaying coronavirus symptoms.People who are deemed vulnerable have also not been allowed to work from home, the newspaper added.

It currently does not have any cases in its contact centre Swansea and there are four cases across the whole estate.Public Health Wales’ outbreak control department is said to have received a complaint alleging DVLA workers were told to turn off their NHS Track and Trace apps when working so they would not receive a ‘ping’ notification.

Welsh Wellbeing Minister Eluned Morgan admitted they had been concerned about the site in Swansea ‘for a while’ and had been ‘putting pressure on them’. The Hazards Campaign Janet Newsham told the Observer the DVLA centre had experienced the biggest reported workplace outbreak.‘They have been put at risk of death and long-term ill health – and the outbreak is still going on.’

 

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