Cape Town scraps Covid-19 temperature screening
The City of Cape Town MMC for Corporate Services Theresa Uys has confirmed that the metro will no longer require staff and visitors to undergo Covid-19 temperature screening.
Uys says the decision was issued by the Western Cape Department of Health in December 2020, but the city is only implementing the directive now.
“We have just amended the screening requirement to be in line with the new regulations, so symptoms screening must continue, that is a legal requirement. Every visitor to the City facilities will have to sanitise, complete a screening form but temperature measurement is no longer a requirement. The safety of all visitors will be ensured.”
According to the consolidated Directions on Occupational Health and Safety measures in certain workplaces in terms of Regulation 4 (10) of the National Disaster Regulations only speaks to the screening of symptoms and not temperature screening.
The directive was issued by the Minister of Employment and Labour Thulas Nxesi in May 2021.
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