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Outbreak at German slaughterhouse reveals migrants' plight
By FRANK JORDANS | Associated Press | Published: May 13, 2020
COESFELD, Germany — Big white trailers with pictures of juicy roasts and the wholesome slogan “Straight from the farmer” sit idle on the edge of Coesfeld, their usual pork hauls disrupted by an outbreak of coronavirus at one of Germany’s biggest meat processing companies that has put the industry in the spotlight.
At least 260 workers at Westfleisch's slaughterhouse in northwestern Germany have tested positive for COVID-19 in recent days, causing alarm at a time when the country is trying to slowly relax the restrictions that were imposed to curb the pandemic.
As authorities scrambled to contain the growing outbreak over the weekend, it emerged that many of those infected were Eastern European migrants working for subcontractors who also provide them with accommodation and shuttle buses to work.
“If one person is infected then basically everybody else that sits on the bus or lives in the shared houses is infected," said Anne-Monika Spallek, a Green Party representative in Coesfeld who has campaigned against the meat industry’s practice of outsourcing much of its back-breaking work to migrants working under precarious conditions...
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https://www.euronews.com/2020/05/18/...ions-worldwide
Germany
Confirmed Cases 176,807
Confirmed deaths 8,054
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http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/202..._139069927.htm
Germany 177,289 Confirmed Cases
https://interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/l...nd-landkreise/
Total numbers for Germany
Cases
177,322
Newly infected
4716
Convalescent
154,600 *
Dead
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/t...down-w7tw5ddjs
- Germany has had 180,789 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and registered 8,428 deaths, according to the government"The only security we have is our ability to adapt."Comment
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https://www.worldometers.info/corona...untry/germany/
Coronavirus Cases:
181,895
Deaths: 8,533
Recovered:163,200"The only security we have is our ability to adapt."Comment
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