In the “Wiesenhof”- a slaughterhouse in lower Saxony, Wildeshausen have started, the competent authorities on Wednesday with the testing of a total of 1100 employees of the operation. “It now needs to go very quickly,” says the speaker of the district of Oldenburg, with a view on a small test set under 50 employees, the man was on 23 Corona-cases encountered. After a few more Tests, the number of Infected rose on Wednesday afternoon to 35. If the Corona onset Westphalia in lower Saxony’s Turkey slaughterhouse in a similar a serious impact on how the huge site of infection, with more than 1500 Patients to the company Tönnies in North Rhine-one will know until the end of the week. On Friday, the test results are available to all employees.

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Political correspondent for lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Bremen, with its headquarters in Hannover.

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The slaughter of the turkeys in Wildeshausen, and is for the time being. One reason for this is likely to be chains logistics, which are in the poultry sector is still compressed as in other branches of the meat industry: The turkeys are fattened in a very short space of time, and your battle date is still set months in advance. In the event of the closure of a large slaughterhouse like Wildeshausen there is also hardly any alternatives, because in Germany there are only a handful of Turkey slaughterhouses, which have a similar Dimension, such as the Wiesenhof slaughterhouse in Wildeshausen. From the Ministry of agriculture in Hannover, it said on Wednesday that the culling of entire herds is currently not an issue. The industry, due to the lack of slaughter capacity, however, is undeniably facing a difficult Situation.