Germany : more than 730 employees of a slaughterhouse tested positive for the coronavirus

The property has been partially stopped, and 5300 people still need to be tested in the next few days in the town of Gütersloh. This is a new cluster in German

The property has been partially stopped, and 5300 people still need to be tested in the next few days in the town of Gütersloh.

This is a new cluster in Germany : 730 of 1106 employees of the slaughterhouse of Gütersloh, in the west of the country, have tested positive for Covid-19, indicated the spokesman of the district on Thursday evening in the German press. The primary and nursery schools in the city will be closed as a precaution until June 26, the first day of summer vacation, according to the local authorities.

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Owned by Tönnies, the slaughterhouse had to discontinue a part of its production for “ten days”, according to a press release issued by the group. In total, 5300 people should still be tested in the next few days in the commune, using a score of deployed military personnel specifically to assist in the implementation of these tests.

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Spread through the countries of the East

According to the head of the region, the virus could have spread to the return of workers from the eastern countries, including Romania. Some of them had travelled in their family these last few weeks, with the reopening of the borders, before returning to Germany, said Sven-Georg Adenauer.

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in The month of may last, Germany had announced a tightening of controls in its abattoirs after an outbreak of new cases. In Schleswig-Holstein, a border region of Denmark, a slaughterhouse had recorded 109 cases of contamination on the 8th may last, reminds BFMTV. Cases had also been detected in slaughterhouses in France, the United States, Spain and Australia.

Date Of Update: 20 June 2020, 09:58

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