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In the Coesfeld district of North Rhine-Westphalia, a new type of coronavirus was detected in the organization of 129 guest workers from a slaughterhouse in Eastern Europe. Therefore, the number of new infections detected per 100,000 population in the past seven days has risen above the 50 limit, and the next phase of the withdrawal of disease control measures should be postponed.
This means, among other things, that restaurants and cafes will not be able to receive guests in the district next Monday, but not before a week, and stores of more than 800 square meters will not be open for at least another week, announced the Friday the provincial health minister, Karl-Josef Laumann. Afternoon in Düsseldorf.
The plant was temporarily closed. Dozens of infections were also detected at the company’s other site in Recklinghausen. Due to group infections, inspections are carried out at all slaughterhouses and meat processing plants in the province, as well as at workers’ accommodation. The government is also “closely inspecting the accommodation of temporary farm workers, also primarily from Eastern Europe,” Health Minister Ursula Heinen-Esser said, according to a report by regional public service media company Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR ).
Also due to an outbreak among meat factory workers, the number of infected people rose above the threshold to postpone the restriction in two districts in the provinces of Schleswig-Holstein, Steinburg and Segeberg. According to the regional public service media company Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), the virus is spreading mainly among Romanian guest workers. The provincial government ordered that all slaughterhouse and meat processing plant workers be screened for the new type of coronavirus.
According to a report published Friday in the news magazine Der Magiegel, more than 600 infections have been detected among guest workers in mass accommodation establishments in meat establishments across the country.
Infections also occur among seasonal agricultural workers, the epidemic has already claimed many lives, a Romanian asparagus guest-worker worker died in April, on a farm near Freiburg, the virus entered his body in Germany.
The emergency mechanism agreed at a meeting of the federal and provincial governments on Wednesday should also be launched in the Greiz district of Thuringia province, where the virus has spread dangerously among residents and workers of a nursing home.
According to the Robert Koch Institute for Epidemiology (RKI), the new type of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was detected in 167,300 people in Germany overall on Friday, 1,209 more than a day earlier.
The number of infected people who have been cured, that is, those who have already been infected, has increased by 1,800 to 141,700. In the virus-caused disease (Covid-19), 7,266 confirmed infected people died, which is 147 more than a day earlier.
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