We are surprised that to this day, the Administration has not deemed it necessary to inform staff of the recent situation of COVID-19 cases within KMI, where a source of infection with about twenty contaminated members has been identified. Has an investigation been carried out by the Administration to determine its cause and to assess whether all sanitary measures have been observed? We believe that it would have been appropriate on the part of the Administration, in its last message of February 4, to inform the staff of the real situation so that each colleague may act in full knowledge of the facts since, as we may recall, physical presence at the office is requested for a certain number of colleagues.
The Administration has the duty to inform and protect its staff.
Furthermore, it is regrettable to note that while some sister agencies, namely the Rome-based UN Agencies, are taking a proactive approach to secure doses from the Italian government to be administered to their personnel and dependents, our Administration takes a bystander role and instructs the staff to deal directly with the host country.
Maxime BUN ISAU President
