"Global labour agency wants employers to shield workers "

Employers should consider the novel Covid-19 an occupational disease for their workers, the International Labour Organisation has recommended. Implications include requiring employers to provide sufficient coverage to protect workers from exposure through preventive measures...

This follows the exposure of various cadres of workers to the coronavirus disease, including those employed in the healthcare sector and others like Daudi Kimuyu Kibati, a Kenya Airways captain who died after contracting Covid-19 in the line of duty. Kibati contracted the virus while on a trip to New York, currently the Covid-19 global hotspot, where he had flown to evacuate Kenyans before the country closed it borders...Kibati offers stark illustration of how the virus could affect workers in the line of duty, where they end up paying the ultimate price. However, it is unclear if his family will be compensated for a work-related death.