Corona tester at Bavarian airport is infected - employees have to continue working despite the positive test

A corona tester at a Bavarian airport tested positive for the virus itself.

The employees learned little about this and had to continue working.

• An employee of Ecolog at Nuremberg Airport *, who tests travelers at airports for Bavaria, has been infected with the corona virus *.

• His colleagues just had to keep working.

• Now there is another case.

  A BR search reveals appalling working conditions and a lack of communication at Ecolog.

Nuremberg

- No, the previous work of the Ecolog company, which tests all travelers at the Bavarian airports in Munich *, Nuremberg and Memmingen on behalf of the Bavarian Ministry of Health, cannot be described as smooth.

Not even as flawless.

And certainly not as customer-friendly, as our own corona test research at Munich Airport shows. *

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But what the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation in Nuremberg * has now revealed throws a whole new picture of the Ecolog company and its work practice in the service of the Bavarian state government.

In order for Ecolog to be able to set up the staff for the test acceptance at the three Bavarian airports in such a short time, the Dubai company apparently made extensive use of temporary workers.

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So far so legal.

All employees, whether contract workers or permanent employees, are also regularly tested for the corona virus, according to Ecolog.

So far so good.

Now, according to BR information, an Ecolog employee at Nuremberg Airport tested positive for Covid-19.

He was still working normally in shifts on the weekend.

Incidentally, a work environment that apparently does not attach great importance to hygiene rules, as the BR learned from an employee who remained anonymous.

During the break, people cramped together in a container to eat.

Distance?

Mask?

Nothing.

The employee stayed at home.

As a countermeasure, all employees should now be tested daily.

Also interesting, as it is well known that it takes a few days until a corona infection can be detected in the test *, but you can still be contagious during that time.

Corona tester at Nuremberg Airport has Corona itself - employees find out about it via chat

According to BR, there was

clear

to the

and no follow-up to the

.

, by the way actually a military service provider who among other things operates laundries for the German armed forces, claims the opposite in a written statement.

Everyone was informed immediately, contacts identified and already in quarantine.

A chat, which is also available to the BR, speaks a different language.

There the

reacts

to worried questions from employees

with a specific

.

Of course, they want to know who the colleague was, with whom he had contact.

“I also have another job,” writes a colleague.

According to BR, the shift supervisor reacts with this sentence, among other things: "

Anyone who spreads panic or rumors can receive a warning! "

Ecolog shift supervisor in response to inquiries about the positive Corona case.

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Is Ecolog responsible now?

Doesn't the company have a duty of care for its employees?

And with which travelers did the Corona-positive employee have contact?

And with how many?

All questions to which Ecolog initially does not respond.

Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) *, already on the defensive because of the ongoing test breakdowns in Bavaria, will certainly be happy.

LGL confirms the second corona case at Ecolog at Nuremberg Airport

In the meantime, the Bavarian State Office for Health and Life Safety announces:

"As part of routine testing of Ecolog employees at the test station at Nuremberg Airport, the information available to us has so far resulted in a total of two positive cases."

It is not known whether Ecolog employees already know about the second case.