Workers at the Piarco International Airport have been told to practice zero tolerance given that they are at the port of entry which makes them vulnerable to the Coronavirus.

“You have no masks, no hand sanitizer and no Lysol  Spray and most importantly they have no training.

“Therefore you must stop working until you have all the safety gear,” Watson Duke, President of the Pubic Service Association (PSA) told workers at a meeting at the Food Court of the Piarco International Airport on Friday morning.

 “You must be given the N95 masks because face masks won’t contain the virus,” Duke told the workers insisting that the first law in health and safety is “self-preservation”.

   “So this airport must be closed until you get the right equipment. You must let them take your health seriously.

 The PSA President is also demanding that the government establish Nelson Island as a quarantine centre.

 “France has taken a decision to quarantine people who enter the country for 14 days and Australia is making arrangements to send people to Christmas Island.

“Trinidad’s response is to tell people to layover for 14 days after leaving China. 

  “At whose expense ?” Duke asked.

 “Persons coming into TT must be quarantined and you should take them to Nelson Island which must be equipped to become a detention centre.

    ‘They are treating it like a wash-hand thing,” Duke said.