If the risk of being infected with the new coronavirus is increased in hospitals, it could also be in slaughterhouses, according to a study published on May 8 by the Center for Control and Prevention of Diseases (CDC) in the States United, reveal our CNews colleagues this Friday.
According to the first studies, certain professions are much more at risk than others with coronavirus. This is obviously the case for workers working in slaughterhouses. Almost 4% of workers in this industry have been contaminated by Covid-19, the equivalent of 5,000 cases out of 130,000 employees in the United States.
Four dead in the United States
On Wednesday, a fourth controller responsible for enforcing sanitary rules in American slaughterhouses died from the Covid-19. The official from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) was based in Dodge City, Kansas, said spokesman for the organization representing government workers in the country, AFL-CIO.
The other three dead controllers were based in the states of New York, Illinois and Mississippi, he added. The union representing the employees of establishments processing meat estimated on May 8 that 30 of them had died after contracting the new coronavirus and that more than 10,000 in total had been infected or exposed to the disease.
Slaughterhouses opened during containment
And cases of contamination are increasing everywhere, especially in France. In Vendée, eleven people tested positive for Covid-19 among the 700 employees of the Arrivé factory (Maître Coq), a poultry slaughtering company located in Essarts-en-Bocage The initiative to test these employees had been taken after nine people working at this site tested positive for Covid-19 over a period of five weeks, effective April 1.
Twenty people were therefore tested positive in total, and only one showed serious signs, out of 675 people working on site in total. The Arrivé company is a poultry slaughterhouse that never stopped working during confinement and where sanitary rules have been reinforced with the reporting of these cases.
How to explain this contamination form? According to epidemiologist Benjamin Cowie of the Doherty Institute in Melbourne, quoted by CNews, of Doherty, social distancing is very complicated to put in place in slaughterhouses. In addition, in the United States and France, most of the slaughterhouses remained open during confinement to allow supply to large areas.
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