Another 16 people tested positive for Covid-19 at Banham Poultry since Thursday, bringing the total number of cases to 96.
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Last Friday, the factory’s cutting room closed after the company voluntarily agreed to close a component of its operations and begged 350 workers to isolate themselves.
In today’s update, Dr. Louise Smith, Director of Public Health at Norfolk Council, told the Eastern Daily Press that the plant had been cleaned very well and that cell verification sets were activated for verification.
Several are believed to have performed at James Paget University Hospital in Norfolk.
Dr Smith added: “Following the Covid 19 outbreak in banham Poultry’s cutting-courtroom, we announced last Friday that we would expand the tests to run at the rest of the site.
“Staff and their homes, in addition to children, will have to isolate themselves for 14 days if they have not tested positive or have not been evaluated.
“Staff must isolate for 10 days if they have had a positive test result, and their households, including children, need to isolate for 14 days.
“It is suggested that anyone who has not been reviewed requests a check and more and more cell phones are being used.”
After last week’s outbreak, Dr. Smith said the vast majority of cases at the plant occurred among staff working in the cutting room, where slaughtered chickens are cut into quick pieces, and that the number of cases in other parts of the plant is low.
Blaine van Rensburg, Managing Director of Banham Poultry, said: “The protection of our staff, our consumers and the general public is vital to us.
“We are running with the public fitness government so that we are probably doing everything we can and that we are following all proper procedures.
“The company remains open and operational and we are doing everything we can to prevent the spread of the virus.
“We have already invested in a variety of procedures and protective devices for the protection of our staff.”
In figures released Friday, SAGE reported that Norfolk has an “R” between 0.8 and 1.
The processing plant is in Breckland, which has only 5.02 instances consisting of 100,000 inhabitants, about part of the 10.68 average in England.
It’s the latest food processing plant to report an outbreak, sparking fears over the spread of Covid-19 in chilled factories.
An outbreak at a bird factory in Scotland has affected more than 150 people with 42 other positive tests.
The number of positive Covid-19 cases similar to the 2 Sisters food processing plant in Coupar Angus, Perthshire reached 152, with 134 workers and 18 of their contacts affected.
As a result of the closure of the plant, 110,000 chickens will be slaughtered, reported.
Meanwhile, 4 employees of a medical plant who manufacture products in combat opposite Covid-19 tested positive for coronavirus.
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