Unions at Chile’s Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, said on Wednesday that nearly 3 000 workers had been infected with the coronavirus, prompting renewed calls for more safety measures at the company’s sprawling operations.
Patricio Elgueta, president of the Federation of Copper Workers (FTC), an umbrella group for the company’s unions, told Reuters it had tallied 2 843 coronavirus infections among workers as of July 5.
"The company does not give the database to the workers, so we have to rebuild it every day in order to see how (infections) are progressing," he said.