An outbreak of a dozen Covid-19 cases has been detected in an EDF service company working on the site of the Belleville-sur-Loire nuclear power plant (Cher) and more than 500 tests are in progress , announced this Wednesday, July 8, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Center-Val de Loire.
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" The last screenings, about sixty people, must take place today (Wednesday), for a total of more than 500 tests ", explained Christophe Lugnot, the director of cabinet of the ARS Center-Val de Loire. " These are not EDF employees, but those of a company working on a site, " he said.
The ARS has the results of just over a hundred employees. The agency is now awaiting the results of the 350 tests carried out Monday and Tuesday.