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This is what Boris Johnson said to Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs when he committed to having a contact tracking system in place by 1 June. Johnson said:
I can tell him also that by June 1, already we have recruited 24,000 trackers and by June 1 we will have 25,000. They will be capable of tracking the contacts of 10,000 new cases a day.
The union representing the majority of workers in the meat and poultry processing industries in Northern Ireland has warned of a “growing number of clusters” of Covid-19 around factories in County Tyrone.
Unite claimed that the localised spikes in workers infected were in areas close to Foyle Meats in Omagh and Linden Foods in Dungannon.
In the USA more than 10,000 meatpackers have caught Covid-19, with at last 45 deaths. We are determined to avoid a similar crisis.
We need to see sites where clusters are being identified shut down immediately but temporarily while tests are completed for all workers. Those workers need to be fully paid for the duration of the testing period.
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