Six employees working in a slaughterhouse located in the Côtes-d'Armor have tested positive for Covid-19, and a massive screening campaign is underway, announced Friday May 15 the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Brittany.
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“ A report was sent on May 13 to the ARS by the Saint-Brieuc Hospital Center, relating to a patient diagnosed with Covid-19. The latter is employed as an external service provider for an agrifood company , ”says ARS. " The first health surveys in the company carried out without delay by the ARS and Santé Publique France made it possible to highlight five other cases confirmed since May 9, " continues the ARS.
A source close to the file, it is one of the production sites of the Kermené group, a subsidiary of E.Leclerc distributor centers, located in the town of Mené.
4 dead in the United States
Employees tested positive for Covid-19, whether external or internal to the company, exercised their professional activities in a limited area of the company of around 220 people, specifies the ARS.
In the United States, a controller responsible for enforcing health rules in American slaughterhouses, several of which have become centers of contagion from Covid-19, died Wednesday after contracting the disease. The official from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) was based in Dodge City, Kansas, said spokesman for the organization representing government workers in the country, AFL-CIO.
Three other controllers who died of the disease were based in the states of New York, Illinois and Mississippi.
