These two foci of contamination are located near Orleans and Saint-Brieuc.
They are part of the famous new foci of infection throughout France : over one hundred people were positive Sunday at Covid-19 in two “clusters” within two slaughterhouses, one near Orleans and the other near Saint-Brieuc, have announced Sunday, the health authorities.
In a slaughterhouse of the Côtes-d’armor, where six cases were reported Friday, “the results of the tests show this day 63 positive cases Covid-19 additional, bringing the total of confirmed cases to 69. These people are isolated in their homes and their monitoring will be ensured by the ARS Britain”, said the regional Agency for health in a statement released Sunday evening.
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The ARS and the health insurance must identify “all of their contacts at risk in order to apply the device quatorzaine for these people, as well as the prescription of a test and masks health”, the statement said. The ARS Britain and the prefecture of the Côtes-d’armor) organized a screening campaign on the site Friday with 209 staff members, which resulted in the detection of 63 new cases.
Screening “large enough”
In the Loiret, about 400 employees of a slaughterhouse of Fleury-lès-Aubrais, where a “cluster” of 34 cases of Covid-19 has been confirmed, without serious case, which will undergo a screening by Tuesday, according to the ARS Centre/Val-de-Loire.
“given the importance of the circulation of the virus in the abattoir, the ARS of Centre-Val de Loire has decided to “conduct the screening of all employees of the company beyond the single die unit which was the subject of the investigation first,” said Sunday, Laurent Habert, director general of the ARS Centre-Val de Loire, at a press conference.
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This testing, called the “quite considerable”, organized until Tuesday, thanks to the mobile units of the CHR of Orleans, “will allow us to take an in-depth and accurate of the presence and the movement of the virus within the company”, according to Laurent Habert. Sunday morning, the forty employees have already been tested and the results should be known in the evening or Monday morning, according to the same source.
Closure of schools, receptions of leisure and day care centers
Stone Pouessel, prefect of the Loiret and the Centre region-the Loire valley, felt that it was an “important case of grouped Covid”. The prefect has decided to close the business until Monday, may 25. “According to the human resources department of the company, there were many masks, gels, plugs, temperature at the entrance of the slaughterhouse, and it seems that the protocol has been complied with,” said Peter Pouessel. For its part, the mayor of Fleury-les-Aubrais, Marie-Agnès Linguet, it was announced on the site of the town hall closure, from this Monday and for the entire week, schools, receptions of leisure activities and facilities.
The slaughterhouse Tradival has a capacity of 55 000 tons per year, which makes it “the most important slaughterhouse of slaughtered animals, specialized in the pork sector, region Centre-Val de Loire”. This abattoir, which is characterized “by its obsolescence,” according to the prefect, and composed of three units (slaughter, cutting, processing), belongs to the Sicarev.
These two new “cluster” taking birth in a slaughterhouse, in addition to several cases abroad. In the United States, several slaughterhouses have become hotbeds of contagion of the Covid-19. In Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein, a border region of Denmark, a slaughterhouse had recorded 109 cases of contamination, may 8, throwing suspicion on the entire sector in the country.
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Asked about the possible difficulty of applying the gestures of the barrier in the slaughterhouses, Laurent Habert felt that the 34 confirmed cases, in a place where work, 160 people showed “that there has been a lot of contacts and exchanges in this unit within the personal”. “Maybe he will look at that also, and this will be one of the goals of the investigation, the conditions in which officers and staff are, as a whole, including outside of the production chains. It will be necessary to see if the gestures barrier, and physical distance were or were not applied”.
