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Another 80 Romanians working in a slaughterhouse in Germany were infected with the new coronavirus. In total, 130 employees of the North Rhine-Westphalia company tested positive for COVID-19, and 60% of them are Romanian citizens, reports the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bucharest.
Romanians’ health is good. I am currently in solitary confinement in a hotel provided by the company. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has verified and all employees have an employment contract and medical insurance. So far, no one has asked for the help of the Romanian authorities.
Occupational safety and health inspectors found that COVID protection requirements were not being met at the factory.
Meat processing plants are particularly vulnerable to becoming coronavirus outbreaks, as many workers are housed in barracks.
Last month, more than 200 Romanians from a slaughterhouse in Baden-Wuerttemberg were confirmed with Covid-19.
Why did the locals protest?
for Coesfeld The restrictions will not be relaxed. is the only town in Germany where this happens. The reason? The worrying situation of infections in the slaughterhouse where dozens of Romanians work.
Plus local protested at the gates meat processing unit, according to a report issued by public television ARD.
“The schools and kindergartens were closed and I understood why. It was fine even when there were no infected children, and here there are more than 100 infected employees and they continued their activity as if nothing had happened,” said one protester.
“I am angry and terrified that such a large company has not taken responsibility,” says another woman.
“There are migrant workers from Eastern and Southern Europe who often find themselves in overcrowded and unhealthy spaces, people who work 60 hours a week, who are exhausted from hard physical work, people who do not speak German,” said another. demonstrator. .
“Eastern European workers have told us that the conditions in which they are housed are catastrophic, that 6 or 8 people sleep in one room,” said a union representative.
Mass tests in slaughterhouses
The Minister of Health of the Province of North Rhine-Westphalia dispus controls at the place where workers are accommodated and suspendedarea exerciseATIII factory. In addition to a test in Mass.
“We have asked state health departments to evaluate all employees of meat processing plants in North Rhine-Westphalia,” said Minister Karl-Josef Laumann.
That means that approximately 20,000 people will be evaluated urgently. Because authorities fear that meat processing plants will become outbreaks of infection that cannot be kept under control, several Länder are considering evaluating employees in these units.
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