Outbreak forces Belgian factory to close world’s largest brewery



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Trat-given factory JupilleonMeuse, near Feudal (eastern Belgium), municipality that inspired the name of Jupiler, one of the beer giant’s best-known brands.

Nine employees tested positive for the new coronavirus in the last eight days and one of them is hospitalized in “critical condition”, he told the France agency Rush Patrick Rehan, of the socialist union FGTB, criticizing the direction for having “taken the time” to take appropriate action.

“The place has been closed since yesterday (Thursday),” said the union leader.

The outbreak was discovered in the logistics and transportation department, which has a hundred employees out of a total of 750 at the factory.

In a meeting today with representatives of direction union leaders called for the leaders to be removed from the group, according to the Rehan. Questioned by AFP, management did not respond.

HE FGTB He said that since Thursday, a hundred factory employees have been tested.

A multinational Belgian brewery AB InBev also makes brands like Stella Artois, Corona or Budweiser, plus dozens of other locations. HE Jupiler gives its name to the Belgian soccer championship for sponsorship reasons.

Belgium is one of the most affected through COVID-19-19 in absolute numbers. Today’s data from the authorities totals 86,544 infected and 9,899 deaths, which reveals one of the highest mortality rates in the world in relation to the population of some 11.5 million inhabitants.

A pandemic of COVID-19-19, is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected not end of December in China, it has already claimed at least 863,679 deaths and infetou more than 26 million people around the world, according to a report by the agency France Rush.

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