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Tabitha111
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Posted: May 27 2020 at 2:31pm |
Netherlands seems to always be in the news lately- https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-05-25/number-of-coronavirus-cases-at-dutch-meatpacking-plant-jumps-to-147 May 25, 2020 AMSTERDAM (REUTERS) - The number of people diagnosed with the coronavirus at a Dutch pork processing plant near the German border has jumped to 147 since it was closed last week and workers asked to go into quarantine. The Vion plant in Groenlo, located east of Arnhem and west of the northern German city of Muenster, employs 657 people, many of them German. Health authorities ordered it shut and the workers quarantined after 45 infections were detected on May 20. Seventy-nine German workers and 68 Dutch workers at the plant have now tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus. "The size of such a group of people with positive tests is very worrying," said Ton Heerts of the regional security agency VNOG. "Townships involved will try to answer questions from residents and support companies locally as much as possible." Regional health authorities are conducting an extensive track and trace program to see who the infected workers may have been in contact with, Heerts said. Coronavirus outbreaks have also hit meatpacking and abattoir workers in adjacent northwestern Germany. |
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Dutch Josh
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Tabitha111-It gets even worse; the workers from the Groenlo-plant-supposed to be in quarantine-may have been transported-in overloaded busses-to work in another plant in Apeldoorn (all in Gelderland, not far from were I live.) [url]https://nltimes.nl/2020/05/27/slaughterhouse-shut-due-social-distancing-violations[/url] and [url]https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/05/police-close-apeldoorn-abattoir-for-breaking-covid-19-rules/[/url] The employment agency that provided these (often temporary) jobs (to Polish, Romanian EU citizens-temporarely living in NL-Germany) has to pay the workers-even when they are now supposed to stop their job for quarantine. The job-agency has a choice-put those (possibly infected) workers at a job in another plant or face bankruptcy. Also the meat-producer needs to keep his company going or go broke. |
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Wonder how long WU lasts on a cold carcass |
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[url]https://nltimes.nl/2020/05/29/helmond-slaughterhouse-closed-21-coronavirus-infections[/url] DJ-Two remarks; -Helmond is not far from the area with (at least) five infected mink farms. The "meat plant" in Helmond has 1700 employees. -Due to spending cuts all kind of agencies hardly are able to do their job. Politics believes "self-regulation" will do the job. Sometimes the agency supposed to control for all need to get the ir finance from the producer they are supposed to control. |
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