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UK railway ticket office worker dies from Covid-19 after being spat on

A British railway ticket office worker has died from Covid-19 after being spat on while she was working at Victoria station in central London.

Belly Mujinga, 47, was working with a colleague when a member of the public assaulted them, spat and coughed over them and said he had the novel coronavirus, said her union, the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA), in a statement Tuesday.

Mujinga, who had an underlying health condition, was working for Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) on the station concourse at the time of the incident on March 22.

British Transport Police said in a statement to reporters that an investigation into the incident had been launched.

"Belly and her colleague begged to be let to work from inside the building with a protective barrier between them and the public for the rest of that day," TSSA said in its statement.
"Management said they needed people working outside and sent them back out onto the concourse for the rest of their shift."

Both women went back outside and completed their shift, added the union, but they had no personal protective equipment.

Mujinga had underlying respiratory problems for which she had had an operation, regular hospital appointments and had previously needed to take time off work, according to TSSA.
The union says GTR knew about her condition and, even after the incident, only stood Mujinga down after her doctor called her work around March 25.

Manuel Cortes, TSSA general secretary, accused GTR of not taking Mujinga's assault "seriously enough" and criticized the company.

"As a vulnerable person in the 'at risk' category and her condition known to her employer, there are questions about why GTR didn't stand her down from front line duties early on in this pandemic," Cortes said in the TSSA statement. "There are serious questions about her death, it wasn't inevitable."
GTR is investigating the accusations, it said in a statement to journalists on Tuesday, adding it takes the allegations "extremely seriously."

"The safety of our customers and staff, who are key workers themselves, continues to be front of mind at all times and we follow the latest Government advice," Angie Doll, managing director at Southern Railway and Gatwick Express, said in the statement.

"We are devastated that our dedicated colleague Belly has passed away and our deepest sympathies are with her family, with whom we have been in touch through this very difficult time," she also said.
Both Mujinga and her colleague fell ill from Covid-19 within days of the assault, according to TSSA.
On April 2 -- just 11 days after the incident -- Mujinga was taken to Barnet Hospital, north London, in an ambulance and put on a ventilator.

"Belly died on 5 April, 14 days after she was assaulted at Victoria station," TSSA said.
She leaves behind an 11-year-old daughter and a husband, who last saw her when she was taken away by ambulance, the union added.

"We are shocked and devastated at Belly's death," Cortes said in the TSSA statement. The union said it is taking legal advice on the situation and supporting Mujinga's family and colleagues.

It also reported the incident to the Railways Inspectorate, the safety arm of the Office for Road and Rail (ORR).

An ORR spokesperson told reporters the office is investigating the incident. TSSA revealed Mujinga's story as the British Government urged some people to return to work if they are not able to do so from home, easing some of the restrictions it had put in place to stop the spread of Covid-19.

The union says there is not enough guidance or protection for workers on the front line, such as Mujinga.

"Rather than talking about the easing the lockdown, the government must first ensure that the right precautions and protections have been taken so that more lives are not lost," Cortes said.
"Our rail industry needs to have a very serious look at what tasks are deemed 'essential' and must put protections in place for all our members and our passengers."

The TSSA also called on the government to implement additional measures to compensate frontline workers from the railway industry for their work during these difficult times.
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A worker infected 533 others with coronavirus at a factory in Ghana, president says

Hundreds of factory workers at a fish processing plant in Ghana have tested positive for the coronavirus, the country's president Nana Akufo-Addo said.

All 533 of them contracted the virus from one worker at the factory in the port city of Tema, the president said in his public address to the nation Sunday.

The factory infection was detected from a backlog of 921 samples collected for testing last month that health officials just reported, Akufo-Addo said.

He did not give further details about the operations or measures to be taken about the situation.
The media has reached out to Ghana's health ministry for comment and is awaiting a response.

The mass infection at the facility brings the total number of confirmed cases in the West African nation to 4,700, the president said, adding that 22 people have died of coronavirus-related illnesses since the outbreak was reported in the country in March.

Akudo-Addo said cases have continued to increase due to improved testing, saying the "more people we test for the virus, the more persons we will discover as positive."

Ghana has carried out more than 160,000 tests and it has added seven more testing centers to speed up turnaround time.

The president extended the existing ban on public gatherings and said schools and borders across the country would remain closed.

Last month, the president lifted a three-week lockdown in its key cities, saying its coronavirus testing had improved and also to reduce the effect of the restrictions on the country's poor.
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wisdomiskey:
Bwahahahha!
Too bad iamundisputed2 the ignoramus sorry, "intellectual" doesn't know that

The point is does it work?
It was just introduced in 2015...
Anything that does not work is useless.

iamundisputed2:
When you give birth to your own, don't give them vaccines, not even Malaria vaccine. Thank me later...

There is no such thing as malaria vaccine

sweetmelanin:
I think you are the shallow one here who has clearly refused to reason!

1. Why is Bill Gates (a college dropout with no medical background) suddenly the spokesperson for global health?
2. Why is the vaccine (which we have no idea of it's long term effect) being pushed to be mandatory?
3. Why is Bill Gates pushing for digital identification of those who have been vaccinated (ID2020)?

But you are making use of the intellectual property of a college drop out on daily basis

CodeTemplar:
Come o, what's the effect of marijuana on Coronavirus sef?
They should check out the elderly Jamaicans and see what's going on.

You have a point o

Hmmm

Nice one from Trump

Nice update

This is alarming

helinues:
Except he has dual citizenship, na lie

100% real.
A friend of mine without dual citizenship that left Nigeria for Europe in 2018 said he was given the same €600 as stimulus.

Western countries are totally different from Nigeria where lies and deception is seen as a culture...that’s probably the reason why most Nigerians hardly believe what they see or hear in other countries.

BerlinGado:
Amen, Buhari, Jonathan, Obj, and all of their cohorts and everyone that made Nigeria a mockery it is today

Yes exactly.
They all will suffer for their wrong doing against this nation.

A Nigerian man abroad laid curses on Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari after he received over N300,000 stimulus payment from the European’s Union government..”


In a video going viral, the young man could be heard saying Ogún (the powerful spirit of metalwork) will kill President Buhari and all the bad leaders in Nigeria.

He said he isn’t even a citizen and he received such huge amount from the country just for him to buy what he needs during the period of the lockdown which was mandated to fight the spread of the coronavirus.

Watch the video below:-

https://www.taploadedblog.com/video-ogun-will-kill-buhari-nigerian-man-in-europe-curses-after-receiving-300k-coronavirus-stimulus-money/

Awoleesu:
Happy Easter!
















Just wondering if you did cook jollof rice in the pressure cooker!

of course the wife did...that's why the rice look so fermented.

I can only imagine the kind of women we have these days that can't even prepare a simple decent meal...
Even if I'm hungry, I sincerely can not eat that kind of meal

This was the same Funke Akindele that refused to attend her father's funeral rites few months back....Also no body knew when she got married, so why the sudden publicity on her husband's birthday

Is only a foolish man that can't live a happy life without a woman.

Personally I don't really have any other use for women apart from sexual gratification.