Some 69 out of 209 employees at an agricultural producer near St. Brieuc in northwestern France have tested positive for coronavirus following a mass screening, according to the local health authority.
An employee at the unnamed factory in Brittany was admitted to the local hospital on May 13, the health authority says.
Meanwhile, 34 employees have tested positive for coronavirus at the Tradival slaughterhouse in Fleury-les-Aubrays south of Paris, according to the local health authority.
Initially, the French government contact tracing app flagged three employees there for possible symptoms. A wider testing campaign is now underway at the factory and several subsidiary companies, the health authority says.
News of the two clusters of cases comes as France enters its second week of “deconfinement,” as the measures which had seen people confined to their homes, only allowed to leave when carrying a form justifying their movements, are relaxed.
