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A new large and rapidly expanding COVID-19 chimney in Germany has been formed at the Tonnies slaughterhouse in Reda-Wiedbruck, North Rhine-Westphalia, one of the largest in Europe.
By midday Wednesday, 395 of the 590 employees screened for COVID-19 had received positive responses, and the number of confirmed infections overnight rose to 657 from more than 1,000 tested. The new data will be released Thursday and Friday, but one government predicts that the proportion of positive responses will be similar and the number of patients will increase.
All infected Tonnies workers are quarantined for two weeks, and most have no symptoms.
A total of 6.4 thousand. Tonnies, which is staffed, has closed the meat plant for at least two weeks, and Gutersloh County authorities have decided to close all schools and kindergartens, which opened just a few days ago, before June 26. .
Tonnies’ management believes the infection may have been caused by company employees, who had gone to visit relatives or relatives after the quarantine conditions decreased. Many of them come from Eastern Europe.
Company management notes that COVID-19 was not confirmed for any employees during surveys conducted May 10-18.
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