Rheda-Wiedenbrück (NRW) – The number of a positive effect on the Coronavirus-tested staff at the battle of grater engine Tönnies in Rheda-Wiedenbrück has risen to 657. A total of 983 test results were available on Wednesday evening, of which 326 are negative, like a speaker of the circle Gütersloh announced.

Due to the Corona outbreak, all schools and daycare centers close in the district up to the summer holidays. By this step, a spread of the Virus in the population should be avoided, said a spokeswoman for the circle on Wednesday.

Total will be provided 7000 people under quarantine. All of the people who had worked on the factory grounds, had affected the district administrator Sven-Georg Adenauer (CDU) said on Wednesday. They would now be tested and after infection with the Coronavirus.

Tönnies stopped the production of meat photo: SASCHA SCHUERMANN / AFP

While a representative of the company Tönnies on Wednesday by the “gradual” shutdown of the operation of the voice and he did not exclude the possibility that individual areas of work, perhaps more, went district Adenauer. It will come to a “Shutdown” in Tönnies, he said.

Due to the closure of Europe’s largest slaughterhouse district, 20 percent of the meat products are missing according to information from the gütersloh in the German market. “This is still not a reason to panic buying, as was the toilet paper perhaps is the case. But this is already a significant, high number,“ said district administrator Sven-Georg Adenauer.

Also, the pig farmers were provided by the stop of the slaughterhouse before the problems, because their pigs are bred so that they had a certain date of the battle of the Mature. The Tönnies group is striving to increase at other locations, the production, in order to compensate for the failures.

Now to be re-tested, a nation-wide Slaughterhouse workforce with contract workers to the Virus. Announced by the NRW health Minister Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU). Then you will know whether it is the outbreak of an exception or not.