Foster’s
has received confirmation from the Health Services Authority that one
team member from our Foster’s Airport location has tested positive
for COVID-19. On top of the already heightened sanitation process
carried out at each of our locations, the store completed a risk
assessment of the team member’s work-areas and will perform
disinfection-level cleaning once the store closes this evening at 7PM
in accordance with suggestions from the Cayman Islands Government and
published guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) in the US.

The
COVID-19 positive team member is in isolation for the recommended
period as laid out by the Health Services Authority. Contact tracing
is being carried out and any Foster’s team members who worked
closely with the COVID-19 positive team member in the last three days
have been guided according to contact tracing guidelines set forth by
the Cayman Islands Government. The team member is asymptomatic and
was tested as part of the company-wide testing of frontline staff. To
date, we’ve had over 720 team members tested for COVID-19. This
positive case is our third following the confirmation of two positive
team members at our Foster’s Republix location earlier this week.

As
part of our general response to COVID-19, we implemented a heightened
sanitation program throughout the store which included sanitizing
high touch-point surfaces, sanitizing cart handles before and after
each use, and sanitizing registers every 20 minutes. We’ve also
taken in-store measures like requiring our entire team to wear masks,
installing plexiglass protectors at each register, marking suggested
social distance on floors, and creating a Security & Sanitation
team in each location to enforce sanitation policies and perform
assessments throughout the day, to focus on the health and safety of
our team, customers and community. Upon receiving the news of the
positive case, a third-party janitorial service has been scheduled to
come into Foster’s Airport once the store closes to carry out
additional sanitation measures using electrostatic sanitation systems
throughout the store.

“The
health and wellbeing of our team and customers remain our top
priority which is why we take such stringent sanitation and safety
measures, daily. Unfortunately, dealing with positive cases of
COVID-19 is the new normal, globally. We’ve worked with the other
supermarkets on island to align our protocols to ensure all are
responding to positive cases quickly and effectively with safety as
our top priority” says Julian Foster, Marketing Senior Manager.

The
office of the Chief Medical Officer has informed Foster’s that
customers shopping at our Foster’s Airport location are considered
to be at a very low risk of exposure and the products sold at the
store do not represent a risk to customers.

In
accordance with company policy, the affected employees will be taken
care of during the quarantine period and upon their return to work.

Thank
you for your support during this dynamic period.