The tobacco company British American Tobacco Chile (ex Chiletabacos) it works as an essential company and mobilizes workers in quarantined communes, as published this Sunday by the Journalistic Investigation Center (Ciper Chile).
The research medium revealed that the company – which has facilities in Casablanca, San Fernando, Cerrillos and Las Condes – has not stopped operating so far in quarantine and its plant located in the commune of Casablanca has already registered several cases of Covid-19.
According to the report, the company obtained, until June 14, 50 collective permits under the heading of “supermarkets, markets ycI enter supplies“.
According to the new collective permit system that has been in operation since June 19, today it has 25 other current authorizations under the heading “cigar and cigarette manufacturing”.
Cyprus emphasizes that both the ministries of Health, Economy and Agriculture, and the Undersecretariat for Crime Prevention “could not explain why the tobacco is considered ‘essential’“in the midst of the pandemic.
Minister Paris: We are going to investigate the operation of non-essential companies such as tobacco companies #CooperativaEnCasa https://t.co/JCyi809KEN
– Cooperative (@Cooperativa) July 19, 2020
The company became evident after last Friday, July 17, a tobacco truck suffered a millionaire robbery in the commune of Cerrillos, fact that revealed how the tobacco company continues to operate.
Check the full report in Cyprus.
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