German abattoir hit by coronavirus still closed pending hygiene plan
HAMBURG (Reuters) – A huge German slaughterhouse and meat packing plant at the centre of a coronavirus outbreak cannot reopen until authorities are satisfied with its hygiene procedures, the chief executive of the Guetersloh district said on Tuesday.
Some 600,000 people in Guetersloh, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, were forced back into lockdown on June 23 after more than 1,500 workers at the Toennies slaughterhouse and meat packing plant tested positive for COVID-19.
Sven-Georg Adenauer said in a news conference broadcast online that the plant could only be reopened if there is “no threat to the people who work in this company and also not to the people in the Guetersloh region”.
The company had presented a hygiene plan to authorities that went in the right direction but “still needs work and I believe the company will undertake this”, he said, adding it was still not possible to say when the plant would reopen.
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