An Associate at T. Forson and Co., Susana Asabea Nyanpong says employers who force employees who have tested positive for Covid-19 to report to work must be prosecuted.

Citing the Labour Act that, ‘workers have a right to work in a satisfactory, safe and under healthy conditions’, the legal practitioner stated that once the establishment records a case of coronavirus, the workplace ceases to be a safe place.

In that regard, Madam Nyanpong it will be imprudent for managers to ask their staff to report to work when they have tested positive for virus.

“So as soon as you bring a Covid-19 positive person and say “you are asymptomatic s continue working” you are making an environment which is unsafe.

“Because once I come in, I may become infected and I may not be asymptomatic and I might end up on a ventilator, I might end up dying,” she told Samson Lardy on The Law Sunday.

Already the Ghana Health Service has warned that the current surge in Covid-19 cases are being recorded at workplaces.

The Service, therefore, recommended that employers should endeavour to run a shift system to control the spread of the virus.

Furthermore, Madam Nyanpong called for a stiff punishment on persons who test positive for Covid-19 but decided not to quarantine and treat themselves.

Such people, she noted are endangering the lives of others who have not contracted the disease, hence the surge of the virus in the country

“If you are positive and you are roaming, then I am afraid the penalty for that should be much higher. You can’t say I am asymptomatic so I am okay, but you are spreading the disease,” she stated.