The Center-Val de Loire Regional Health Agency (ARS) announced on Saturday the existence of 34 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in a Fleury-lès-Aubrais abattoir in Loiret, near Orléans. Following a report, by the Contact Covid application, of three confirmed cases of Covid-19 within the Tradival slaughterhouse in Fleury-les-Aubrais, an ARS and CHR screening team from Orleans visited the site on Friday.
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"The investigations carried out revealed twelve confirmed cases within the company and two subcontracting companies," said the Regional Health Agency Center-Val de Loire in a press release. The results of the screening operation tests revealed 22 additional cases, bringing the total number to 34. All these people "were prescribed isolation," said the ARS.
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Screening of all employees of the company and its service providers will be undertaken over the next few days. The company will be closed by prefectural decree, "the time to complete the investigations and to carry out disinfection of the premises", according to the same source. Research outside the professional sphere of contact cases of people carrying the virus will be undertaken by health insurance, says the ARS.