(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) A cluster of infections occurred at Airbus's German factory, 21 people have been diagnosed and 500 people have been isolated
China News Agency, Berlin, January 24 (Reporter Peng Dawei) According to German media reports, the Airbus (Airbus, Airbus) plant in Hamburg, Germany, recently had a new crown cluster infection. As of the 24th local time, 21 people have been diagnosed.
The company's 500 employees have been required to undergo home quarantine.
The local health department said that since the virus gene sequencing is still in progress, it has not been possible to confirm whether the infection is related to the mutant strain.
The Airbus Group, headquartered in Toulouse, France, is a major company in the global aerospace and related services sector.
According to German media reports such as Der Spiegel Online and North German Broadcasting, the Airbus plant where the cluster infection occurred is located in the Finkenwerder district of Hamburg, a port city in northern Germany.
According to information on Airbus's official website, the Hamburg plant is Airbus's second largest plant in the world, and more than half of its A320 series passenger planes are produced every year.
Airbus has more than 12,000 employees in Hamburg and is the industrial company with the largest number of employees in Hamburg.
Hamburg Health Bureau spokesperson Martin Helfrich told Deutsche News Agency on the 24th that as of that day, 21 employees in the factory had tested positive for the new crown and 500 employees were required to stay at home.
Airbus Germany spokesperson Daniel Werdung (Daniel Werdung) said that the company immediately took measures such as large-scale testing and quarantine after finding that the employees were infected, and will continue to cooperate with government departments in the future.
As for the extent to which the infection will affect the production of Airbus's Hamburg plant, and whether Airbus will transfer production to other factories, the company is still studying.
At present, the source of this cluster infection is still under investigation.
In response to German media reports that the infection may be related to the highly infectious new crown variant strain recently introduced into Germany, Martin Helfrich responded that the health department has not yet been able to confirm this speculation.
He emphasized that it is necessary to sequence the virus samples before reaching a conclusion.
This means that results are not expected until next week at the earliest.
Recently, several cluster infections have occurred in Germany.
According to a German TV station, on the 23rd of this month, a hospital in the German capital Berlin imposed a complete lockdown after 20 people in the hospital were infected with a mutant strain of the new crown virus, and all patients and medical staff went into quarantine.
On the 24th, Sana’a Hospital in Lubeck, Germany announced that 79 employees and 43 patients had been diagnosed with the infection.
According to the real-time data of Germany's "Times Online", as of 19:26 on the 24th local time, Germany had a total of 2,148,120 confirmed diagnoses, 1,807,227 cured, and 52,785 deaths. As of the 23rd, Germany has received 1,632,777 doses of vaccine, and 163,424 people have received the second dose. (Finish)