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More than 1,130 Bakkavor employees were tested for coronavirus at the site at the Newark dessert plant.
Since the onset of the pandemic, 74 workers tested positive, 61 before the cell phone started at the site. Thirteen others have tested positive since August 12.
This means that forty-five employees who tested positive have returned to work.
The verification facility, which will be in operation until Wednesday, August 19, will allow the control of the 1,600 workers.
Rooms are open from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Workers will be released from the factory and taken to the control area, where the main points are checked before verification.
It is executed through NHS doctors in custom rooms configured through Bakkavor.
The Nottinghamshire County Council has been working with spouse agencies and the dessert maker to put the testing programme into effect.
Staff from other corporate spaces have been assigned to set up and manage the vital administrative task of downloading the main points of the NHS portal, ensuring that the completed tests meet the assigned deadlines.
Shona Taylor, commercial director of desserts at Bakkavor, said: “We sense the importance of testing and am incredibly proud of the control team and all the efforts that have been made so that we can offer this to our colleagues.
“The program welcomed, and colleagues were encouraged and assured that each and every effort is being made to ensure their safety.”
Jonathan Gribbin, Director of Public Health at Nottinghamshire County Council, said: “Bakkavor has been very cooperative and we hope that testing through its workers will allow us to be more informed about where other people get the infection.
“However, we know that not all instances in Newark are similar to Bakkavor, so it is important that others continue to follow strict rules to prevent covid-19 transmission to the community.
“People adhere to the rules of social distance in their entirety, adding rules about car sharing, normal hand washing, face blankets, self-isolation and immediate detection if symptoms develop.”