Some employees of UA:Lviv will work remotely due to a detected case of COVID-19

Starting from August 5, some employees of Lviv branch of Suspilne UA:Lviv will temporarily work remotely due to a confirmed case of COVID-19 disease in videograph operator. 

This was reported at the corporate website of Suspilne. 

The employee  who has COVID-19 is in self-isolation since July 24, and since August 4 — all members of the team who contacted him.

To prevent the outbreak of infection the news team if the branch got transferred to remote mode of work, and news production at the TV channel UA:Lviv and UA:Ukrainian Radio Lviv ceased until the end of the week. 

At the same time, the team of Suspilne in Lviv will not stop informing the public about important events in the oblast. 

“We organized the work to have minimal contacts between employees. The radio team for “Topic of the day” will work in shifts, and broadcasts will go without guests in the studio — the guests will be connected via phone or Skype. News crew will prepare the line of the news with main news of the Lviv region for the TV channel. Digital department will work remotely for the website suspilne.media and for the webpages of the branch in social networks”, manager of the Lviv branch of Suspilne Tetiana Kolisnichenko said.

The room of the branch was disinfected, and health status of all employees is being monitored. 

Since the quarantine started, two branches of Suspilne were temporarily in remote work mode due to cases of disease of employees — Rivne and Chernivtsi branches. They currently work normally.