Copper/gold miner First Quantum still has about 800 people in preventative quarantine at the Cobre Panama mine, which was closed early this month following several positive cases of Covid-19 and the subsequent death of a worker.
Of the more than 7 000 people working at the Cobre Panama mine, about 2 000 remained inside the mining complex when operations closed down and has been progressively transferred. Of those, about 700 are already at home and 500 are quarantined in hotels in the region.