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Next outbreak of corona: 92 infected people reported in meat plant

2020-05-18T09:41:04.009Z


Corona in Lower Saxony: A meat company reports 92 infected people. Politicians now want to advise on new regulations in the industry.


Corona in Lower Saxony: A meat company reports 92 infected people. Politicians now want to advise on new regulations in the industry.

  • A meat company near Osnabrück  in Lower Saxony reports 92 corona infected people.
  • The state of Lower Saxony and the federal government would like advice
  • Politicians are calling for new rules and conditions for meat businesses

Göttingen - In Dissen near Osnabrück ( Lower Saxony ), a meat company will temporarily stop production on Monday (May 18, 2020) due to a massive corona outbreak .

As the district of Osnabrück announced on Sunday evening (May 17, 2020), tests had shown that 92 people were infected among the employees of the meat factory. Affected employees and their contact persons are therefore sent to quarantine .

Corona in Lower Saxony: Many employees of the meat company live in collective accommodation

In the course of the day, the Osnabrück district would like to advise representatives of the state about further actions and discuss whether the meat business is a systemically relevant area of ​​the food industry.

According to the information, 62 of the meat company's employees infected with Corona live in the Osnabrück district ( Lower Saxony ), some even in collective accommodation. Among them are numerous people employed by subcontractors.

Corona in Lower Saxony: meat company affected - contact persons of the infected should not work

However, the identification of contact persons has not yet been completed. The health service for the district and city of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony is currently determining the contact persons for those infected with corona , since they must also be sent to quarantine.

This is to prevent contact persons of the infected workers from being used in other meat factories and possibly spreading the virus there.

Corona in Lower Saxony: Federal government wants to consult meat companies

The districts of Gütersloh, Steinfurt and Wesel in North Rhine-Westphalia and the district of Vechta in Lower Saxony , where the 30 other infected people live, were also informed.

After various ministries in Lower Saxony discussed the previous procedure by telephone conference, the federal government now wants to talk about stricter rules for the industry in view of the corona outbreaks in various meat factories.

Infected in Lower Saxony: Federal Labor Minister Heil (SPD) announces new corona proposals

Federal Minister of Labor Hubertus Heil (SPD) wants to present proposals for occupational safety and health in the Corona cabinet and has already announced within the meat industry with work contracts and subcontractors, as is the case in the meat company in Dissen ( Lower Saxony ), which was severely affected by 92 infected people was to want to clean up:

"We need binding quotas for controls, painful fines for violations, and clear, unmistakable responsibility of an employer for its operations."

Working conditions in the meat industry - time for responsibility and plain text https://t.co/bMZF6IQ0bk

- Hubertus Heil (@hubertus_heil) May 13, 2020

Corona in Lower Saxony: Meat business affected - Greens demand minimum price for animal products

The Food, Beverage and Catering Union (NGG) would like a ban on work contracts: meat businesses and slaughterhouses should not “slaughter slaughterhouses and outsource responsibility,” said Freddy Adjan, Vice President of NGG, Media group.

About new regulations by the high number of infected people in meat establishments nationwide and in Lower Saxony , which is corona cabinet of the federal government to advise on Monday (5/18/2020).

The Greens are also campaigning for a seven-point plan for better wages in meat factories, improved animal husbandry conditions, more state controls and a minimum price for animal products.

Meat industry accuses politicians of ignorance after Corona outbreak in Lower Saxony

Representatives of the meat industry, of course, see it quite differently , despite the latest corona infections in Lower Saxony . The President of the Central Association of the German Poultry Industry, Friedrich-Otto Ripke, said:

" Politicians ignore the facts and stigmatize our industry with the factual and politically negligent push to ban labor contracts in the meat industry alone ."

By Nail Akkoyun

Since May, the corona regulations in Lower Saxony have been relaxed *. However, an emergency brake is still possible.

Despite easing, many restaurants do not want to open during the Corona crisis in Lower Saxony *.

* hna.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.

Source: merkur

All news articles on 2020-05-18

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