After Xi Jinping pushed for thawing the economic freeze due to the lockdown of cities in the face of the novel coronavirus, a few places in China mobilized businesses to resume work. However, several companies, after restarting work, immediately reported a patient of coronavirus at work and thus had to stop operations and instead quarantine all or part of the employees who came to work for another 14 days.
- An office worker from Guangzhou was found to have caught the coronavirus. All employees from his company were stopped from working and put under quarantine.
- A person returned to Beijing to resume his work after the Chinese New Year. After working for eight days, he was found to have the coronavirus. Several dozen people in his department were quarantined and a colleague who sat next to him at the cafeteria during lunch was infected.
- A branch of Chongqing Titanium Industry Company, owned by the Panzhihua Iron and Steel Company, a State-owned enterprise and the largest steel maker in Western China, had 2 confirmed cases and 1 asymptomatic infection case, with 131 people having had close contact with the patients.
- Lianyuan Conch Cement Factory in Loudi City, Hunan Province and an electricity power plant in Shanxi Province also reported cases. The companies either stopped operations or locked down the employees.
- Gree Electric in Zhuhai City, Hubei Province reported that a driver of a shuttle bus to transport its employees to work had close contact with a confirmed coronavirus patient. Gree has several tens of thousands of employees in Zhuhai.
Related postings on Chinascope:
1. Excerpt in Chinese:
广州知名商业办公大楼“天盈广场”管理处发布一份通知函，内文提到，他们在15日上午收到政府部门警告，位于东塔13楼其中一间公司的一名职员确诊感染新冠肺炎。公司所有职员都停止上班，开始隔离。
北京市疾控中心于今（16日）的记者会上，又宣布一例未做好防控的确诊案例，为一名个案返北京上班8天后，近日出现“感冒”症状就医后确诊，部门数十人都被隔离，已有一名在食堂一同排队用餐的同事证实感染。
而在近日，大陆各地也已传出多起聚集性疫情，包括重庆的攀钢重庆钛业公司，出现2例确诊、1例无症状阳性感染者，131人密切接触。
其余也有湖南的娄底涟源海螺水泥厂、山西某电厂均为春节期间因生产需要，继续上班，员工陆续返回复工后，开始出现确诊案例，使得企业目前紧急停工或采封闭式管理；
Source: Radio France International, February 16, 2020
http://www.rfi.fr/cn/中国/20200216-新冠肺炎-广东北京复工均传感染案-经济考量再引忧虑
2. Excerpt in Chinese:
一名接送格力员工的运输公司大巴车司机为新冠肺炎确诊病例的密切接触者，目前该司机及所在班组同事已被停工隔离，格力电器也同步对该司机所驾驶线路接送员工情况进行排查和落实隔离措施，截止目前排查和隔离工作仍在紧张开展中。
Source: QQ, February 16, 2020
https://new.qq.com/omn/20200216/20200216A0LCJ400.html