Over the weekend, we have found cases of Covid-19 among employees in the production.

The infection detection work was initiated right away, and will continue throughout the week with a focus on the employees who have been sent in self-isolation with symptoms. We have identified the employees who have been in contact with the infected, and these have been sent home. They have to be tested before they can return to work.

Monday morning, you will find facilities for quick-testing, where employees from the affected departments will be tested before work.

To ensure the safety of employees and minimize infection, it is important that you do not show up for work if you have the slightest symptoms of illness. In addition, you must follow the Danish Health and Medicines Authority's recommendations and our own rules. These are as follows:

Avoid unnecessary physical contact:

Avoid giving handshake and hugs.
Keep the required distance - at least one meter.
Use a mouthpiece if it is not possible to keep a distance of one meter.

Provide the necessary hygiene:

Before handling mouthpieces, disinfect your hands.
Use hand sanitizer if you have touched surfaces that others may have been in contact with. Including door handles, stair railings, etc.

In addition, it is also recommended to pay special attention to hygiene as well as wear a mouthpiece during transport to and from work if several people are in the same vehicle.

If the above rules and recommendations are deliberately disregarded during working hours, the company consider assessing sanctions from situation to situation.

When you have been sent home as infected / close contact to an infected person:

If you have been diagnosed with COVID-19, it is important that you inform the slaughterhouse about your close contacts. This can e.g. be: Who you live with, who you drive to and from work with or drive to and from your home country with.

In addition, one must:

Make sure to isolate yourself from other people - also people in your own household. Sønderborg Municipality makes single-family homes available if this becomes necessary.
Do not use the same towels in toilets, do not eat with others from the household, feel free to get others to buy groceries.
If you have been sent home as close contact to an infected person with whom you share a residence, you must wait for the infected person to be out of isolation. Then you have to wait another 48 hours, after which you have to be tested at 48-hour intervals. Until then, you must consider yourself isolated and NOT come to work.

The Danish Patient Safety Authority has set up a hotline with Polish-speaking staff. Here you can receive advice and guidance on how to behave if you are infected with COVID-19 or have been sent home as close contact to an infected person. Find the phone's opening hours and number at this link.

All Danish- and English-speaking employees who are infected or sent home as close contact can call tel. +45 32320511 and then dial 1 in the period 9:30-18:00.

If this raises questions, contact your immediate supervisor - rather once too much than once too little.

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