A new focus of contamination, including more than 1500 cases of infection with the virus prompted the authorities to reconfiner a part of the population.
This is a first in Germany. A reconfinement local has been enacted after the outbreak of contamination in a large slaughterhouse, where more than 1500 cases of infections have been detected.
“We’ll reintroduce a containment in the whole of the canton of Gütersloh”, which has about 360 000 inhabitants in the western part of the country, said the press officer of the region, the North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet. “For the first time in North Rhine-Westphalia and in Germany, we’ll be back in a canton of the measures that applied a few weeks ago” before Germany starts in early may a déconfinement progressive, he added.
Presented as a model of management of the pandemic of sars coronavirus, the main european economy had been one of the first european countries with Austria to relax the rules of health, gradually the last month.
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Concerns over an outbreak of contamination
on Monday evening, the local authorities have announced that the 1553 people were infected by the Covid-19 in the township. Some 7,000 people have been placed under quarantine, 21 hospitalized, and 6 are in the care intensive. All employees of this group has been placed under quarantine.
The tv channels were broadcasting images of people presented as employees of the slaughterhouse, waiting behind barriers of metal at the entrance of the shelters for police officers, with masks and gloves, the supplying of food and drinks.
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The appearance of several foci of contamination in slaughterhouses in Germany, but also in France, has reignited the debate around working conditions, regularly denounced by associations for the defense of the environment.
The particularly high number of cases in these places could be explained by the cold and by particulate aerosols, which remain longer in suspension in the air, has advanced the institut de veille sanitaire, the RKI. Angela Merkel’s government has decided to tighten the safety rules in these slaughterhouses. The minister of Labour, the social democratic party Hubertus Heil, called for profound changes in the meat industry and what it required of Tönnies to do everything “to limit the damage”.
Reconfinement until 30 June
The measure must in a first time to last until June 30 and will be translated by the strict limitation of contacts between people, the closure of bars, movie theaters, museums, fitness centers, swimming pools, and the prohibition of recreational activities in closed spaces.
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The restaurants will remain open, but not welcome as customers of the same household, said Armin Laschet, a potential successor to Angela Merkel and candidate for the leadership of their party, the christian democratic Union (CDU) in December.
Calm the situation
These drastic measures, which involved ten days of the beginning of the school holidays in this area very populated and very industrialised, are intended “to calm down the situation” and “increased test” screening.
Germany, so far relatively untouched by the virus to the difference of its european partners such as France, Italy or Spain, is in shock since the discovery of an outbreak of contamination important in what is billed as the largest slaughterhouse in Europe, Tönnies.
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It employs nearly Gütersloh 6700 people, for many who came from Bulgaria and Romania.
