More than 1,300 people working at an abattoir test positive for Covid-19
22 June 2020 - 00:09Police patrols on the Castle Square in Stuttgart, southern Germany, June 21 2020. Picture: THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP
To keep the pandemic under control, Germany needs the reproduction rate to drop below one. The rate of 2.88, published by the Robert Koch Institute for public health, means that out of 100 people who contract the virus, a further 288 people will get infected. In North-Rhine Westphalia, more than 1,300 people working at an abattoir in Guetersloh tested positive for coronavirus, up from 803 infections on Friday.
Outbreaks in recent weeks have occurred in nursing homes, hospitals, institutions for asylum seekers and refugees, in meat processing plants and logistics companies, among seasonal harvest workers and in connection with religious events, RKI said.
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