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The BBC in Gossau will be closed from Tuesday until Thursday night. After an infected guest was present on August 28, all employees were tested. Six employees showed positive results.
The BBC in Gossau will be closed from Tuesday to Thursday night inclusive.
On Monday it still seemed that everything was clear, on Tuesday the bad news followed: at the BBC Gossau, six employees tested positive for the corona virus.
Rita Bolt, BBC Gossau media spokesperson.
It is now expected to remain closed until Thursday night, the company announced. The closure occurs “on a voluntary basis, in consultation with the canton,” says media spokeswoman Rita Bolt.
First case celebrated on August 28
The turbulent days spent at the Gossau nightclub have reached a climax. On August 28, a man celebrated on the BBC that he had symptoms of Covid-19 for the past week and tested positive. The canton stated that it had been “here and there” and could not name any specific contact person.
Guests were then briefed on the case and a mask requirement was imposed on employees and guests who had been in the restaurant at the same time as the sick person. This ended on Monday night.
Additionally, all 45 employees were subjected to a corona test, as Bolt explains:
“All employees who were on duty on August 28 had to be evaluated immediately. Then all the staff. Some went to the family doctor, others went directly to the hospital, so the results did not come all at the same time. Those examined at the hospital were immediately informed. The six positive cases were known Tuesday morning. “
At least one was infected, wearing a mask.
One of the infected stood behind the bar on Saturday. “Since he was wearing a protective mask, we assume that no guests were infected,” says Bolt. Bolt couldn’t say if he or other infected people were on duty in the past week and before the mask requirement.
In any case, that could be ruled out for three of them, as they were on vacation last week. On the one hand, the focus is on an infection in the family. “Four of the six infected people were not knowingly infected at the BBC,” the BBC suspects in its message.
Management suspects that four of the six infected employees were not infected at the BBC.
Fixed defects
After the August 28 case, the canton had complained that the BBC had not recorded when guests left the restaurant during contact tracing. As “FM1 Today” reported, there was even the option to quarantine all 770 guests.
This deficiency was corrected immediately after the corona case was confirmed, Bolt says, and the new system was up and running Saturday night. That’s why the BBC didn’t have to email all the guests this time. He was unable to say whether the canton’s contact tracker had contacted the guests.
Cantonal offices were no longer able to obtain comment Tuesday night. So far, according to the health department, about two to three percent of infections in the canton of St. Gallen have been traced to clubs and bars.
The safety of guests and employees is a priority for the BBC.
BBC puts the cost of security measures at 30,000 Swiss francs a month
The BBC management now wants to report on the additional procedure on Friday. According to the canton, all employees must return to the crown test in six days. Bolt is not afraid of the restaurant’s reputation when closing:
“If the public sees the protection measures we have taken, they cannot damage our image, on the contrary. We can’t do more than that. “
In addition to the registration system, the BBC deployed additional security personnel, disinfectants and extensive fever measurements. You spend around 30,000 francs a month on this.
