39 employees test positive for coronavirus at Unilever factory in Romania

Some 39 of the 620 workers at a Unilever factory in Romania, located in Ploiesti, tested positive for coronavirus, Profit.ro reported.

They were identified during a screening undertaken after one of the factory’s employees showed symptoms. All of the factory’s employees are currently being tested.

No production line has been stopped, the company’s management announced, explaining that those who tested positive work in the same shift and had no contact with the employees in other shifts.

“We also decided to test all employees and collaborators in the unit in Ploiesti, a process that is in full swing. In this context, we have increased the prevention measures that we have strictly implemented since the beginning of the pandemic, and we have taken extra measures,” the company’s management stated.

Unilever operates two factories in Ploiesti: a laundry detergent factory and a food factory, where it produces margarine, universal spices, soups, and mustards.

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