In Bouches-du-Rhône, thirty seasonal agricultural workers tested positive at Covid-19 this weekend, alerted the department prefecture on Tuesday in a press release relayed by La Provence.
A total of 202 people were tested on farms in the market gardening and arboriculture sector in the municipalities of Maillane and Noves, where the employees of the affected company are accommodated.
The authorities must now proceed to the investigation of identification of contact cases and ensure the isolation of persons tested positive, placed in the fortnight and on sick leave.
Massive screening
They also aim to launch a massive screening campaign on all the accommodation known to employees employed by the company concerned, and more generally on the accommodation of seasonal agricultural workers in Bouches-du-Rhône.
At the end of last week, the Public Health agency France reported that 109 foci of Covid-19, also called "clusters", had been identified in France since the lifting of the containment on May 11, but that none had for the he moment was at the origin of a dissemination of the epidemic.