Germany’s coronavirus infection rate has shot up to its highest level for weeks after more than 1,000 abattoir employees tested positive for the virus, sparking a debate about working conditions in its meat processing industry.
The army has been deployed to the abattoir at Rheda-Wiedenbrück, in the industrialised North Rhine-Westphalia region, to help with testing, tracking and quarantining its 6,500 workers.
The high level of infections among workers at the slaughterhouse, which has been closed for two weeks, was the main factor pushing up Germany’s coronavirus reproduction rate — or R-rate — to 1.79, from 1.06 on Friday.
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