Romania’s biggest pork processing plant shuts down due to COVID-19 outbreak

At least 100 employees of the Freidorf slaughterhouse operated by Smithfield Romania have been infected with COVID-19 and the processing capacity suspended operations.

The company suspended the activity of all its three processing plants in Timis county, western Romania, Economica.net reported.

Over 800 employees were tested for COVID-19 and, as the results for the first 500 tests arrived on July 20, 99 of them were confirmed as infected with the new coronavirus.

All the employees will receive full salaries during the period the production is suspended, the company assured.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Smithfield Romania has implemented an extensive program, protocols, and protective measures for coronavirus prevention, the company said.

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