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After a coronavirus outbreak in a Miele factory in Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, around 200 employees were quarantined.
By Wednesday afternoon, 14 employees had tested positive for the corona virus, as the electrical appliance manufacturer announced.
At least six of them are therefore infected with the British virus variant, which is particularly contagious.
After the first cases of infection became known, according to the company, all about 500 employees at the plant were tested for the corona virus on Tuesday.
All test results should be available by Thursday.
Production in the plant was stopped.
The approximately 200 employees, who were placed under domestic quarantine on the instructions of the health department, are all reportedly working in the production area.
Miele announced that no employee from other areas of the 110,000 square meter factory site had tested positive so far.
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At the plant in Euskirchen, Miele produces drives for electrical appliances and cable drums for vacuum cleaners.
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