In a corona outbreak on an asparagus and berry farm, 130 employees were recently infected with Covid-19. Now the harvest workers are criticizing the company’s infection management.
Several harvest workers have gone public with their allegations. Accordingly, it is said, among other things, that the company from Kirchdorf did not protect them sufficiently and tested them too late. According to Deutsche Welle, a harvest worker reported that she was only tested ten days after the first outbreak. The first corona cases on the farm began on April 18. In addition, no safety measures were observed during transport from the accommodations to the fields. The transport was carried out in groups of up to 50 people. When assigning working groups, no care was taken to allow those who also live together to work together.
Operator: Employees have turned down offered rapid tests
The operator did not comment on details on Monday at the request of the NDR in Lower Saxony. A company spokeswoman referred instead to an interview in the “Kreiszeitung”. It states that an unspecified number of harvest workers would not have accepted the offer of rapid tests. The tests were offered to all employees at the beginning of the harvest season. The district stated that the outbreak initially assumed five infections in two manageable work areas. At the end of April there were eight more positive tests. The measures were then tightened.
Ten other infections were discovered. Overall, the number of infected people there is 130 (May 9, 2021) more
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After a second series test, 120 employees are infected with Corona. The outbreak results in the emergency brake. (07.05.2021) more
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Work quarantine for 200 harvest workers ends Tuesday
As a result of the outbreak, the farm several series tests carried out. Today the employees are to be struck off again, as the district announced. There are currently around 200 people in what is known as a work quarantine. You are only allowed to leave the accommodation to harvest in the fields. This order is valid until Tuesday.
Outbreak results in “federal emergency brake”
Around 1,200 people work on the asparagus and berry farm near Sulingen – some of them seasonal workers and some permanent employees. After the massive infection of the workers, the incidence in the district had risen to more than 100. On May 5th, the “Federal Emergency Brake” with curfew and further contact restrictions for the entire district came into force, which is currently still valid. On Monday, the seven-day incidence was 67.3.
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