China News Service, February 14. According to the Greek "China-Greece Times" report, recently, Greece has ushered in a new peak of infection due to the spread of the mutant strain of Omicron.
The Greek government has ordered the implementation of stricter epidemic prevention measures in response to the current situation.
However, the practical implementation is far from satisfactory.
In the retail industry, many employees are worried because their employers are ignoring epidemic prevention and even violating epidemic prevention laws.
Panagiotis, an employee of a major shopping mall store, said: “I have seen rapid tests from colleagues who were not identified by official verification software but entered the workplace without a hitch. They not only enabled us to Your own health is at risk, and the health of your customers is at risk. There are signs all over the store stating that in addition to employees, customers must also undergo temperature checks, but these measures are completely unenforced.”
He added: “Employees were never informed about positive cases around them, which cost us a missed opportunity to get tested for the virus in a timely manner. We learned from an absent employee that his absence was not due to a managerial shift. , but because of a diagnosis of Covid-19. If we didn't reach out to him, we would never have known that Covid-19 was present in our work environment."
According to the report, relevant departments have received several reports from employees, all claiming that store employers have rashly opened businesses in violation of epidemic prevention laws at the expense of public health.
Some employers are asking their employees to go to work as usual even after contracting the virus.
One interviewee who spoke on the condition of anonymity said his employer told him: “If your test results haven’t come back, even if you have obvious symptoms, you have to go to work. Otherwise, whether you end up being diagnosed or not, you are far from being fired. The days are not far away.”
He added, “In many retail stores, we work together in unair-conditioned rooms and basements. We didn’t know he was diagnosed until a colleague of ours contacted us. Almost all colleagues who tested positive were a week ago. I informed the supervisor that they had symptoms, but in the end they were forced to come to the store to work normally..."
It is reported that the Greek government has ordered all retail stores across the country to implement new health protection measures from November 2021.
(Zhang Jiaxiang)