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Vaccination Events Around the World
Throughout the COVID-19 global pandemic, DuPont placed the health, safety and well-being of its employees, contractors and their families as our highest priority. While it was of critical importance to the global virus-fighting efforts that we kept running our plants and serving our customers, we focused first on protecting our population of DuPont workers.
We set a goal in 2021 to ensure the maximum number of employees remained safe from COVID-19. We offered testing at many of our sites, and we hosted events for vaccination to be administered either off-site by local public health agencies of on-site at our facilities where feasible and permitted by local government.
China Integrated Health Services (IHS) team worked with local government in Shanghai to arrange the COVID-19 Mobile Vaccination Station at the China Technology Center (CTC) for 2 times. The vaccine bus, providing 3 types of vaccines, was fully staffed with doctors and nurses to support the function. The 2 days vaccine event administered over 240 vaccinations to DuPont employees at China Technology Center and the nearby Kunshan Service Center.
Vaccination events at our Circleville, Ohio site made vaccines available to family members of employees; and vaccination events at our Wilmington, Delaware sites made vaccines available to contractors and site tenants as well.
Vaccine events like these resulted in the delivery of over 1,900 vaccine doses to over 1,000 Dupont employees globally.
We offered self-testing to all employees in our EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region in Norther Ireland, Luxemburg, Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Germany. At our Luxembourg site alone, over 150 PCR tests and approximated 20,000 antigen tests were administered to employees and contractors from January to October.
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