Germany, for example, has seen a spike of more than 1,500 coronavirus infections within days, calling the durability of its outbreak response into question. The new clusters, concentrated in slaughterhouses and crowded, low-income apartment blocks, prompted the authorities to lock down two counties. Details: The outbreak at the Tönnies slaughterhouse in North Rhine-Westphalia is now one of the most severe in Europe, outside of Sweden, according to European Union figures. Health workers are now trying to test all 7,000 workers from the Tönnies plant, many of them Eastern European seasonal laborers. Several hundred workers from two other slaughterhouses have also been isolated.

Source: New York Times June 26, 2020 04:18 UTC