Aurora to to test all employees and outsourced workers in RS for Covid-19

According to the Labor Prosecution Office (MPT), the Aurora Alimentos Central Cooperative will carry out medical screening and RT-PCR testing to detect COVID-19 in all employees and contractors of its slaughterhouses in Rio Grande do Sul to control the spread of the virus. This results from an agreement with the agency, which observed an increase in cases in some company units. More than 3,600 employees and outsourced workers at the Sarandi and Erechim factories will be tested.

Under the agreement, testing will be done in two stages, each of which will cover all workers at the units, amounting to 7,266 tests.

Those testing positive will be put on leave for 14 days and inconclusive cases will be sent for further testing. Only employees who test negative and are asymptomatic for a minimum of 72 hours will be allowed to return to work. The procedure will be monitored by the local health and epidemiological surveillance authorities. Workers will only return after obtaining the test results, the purpose being to block the transmission.

In August, the company signed an agreement with the MPT to test all workers from four units in Santa Catarina that were being monitored by the regional MPT.

For the coordinators of the MPT National Refrigeration Work Environment Adequacy Project, “testing workers is a fundamental strategy for controlling cases of COVID-19, containing and blocking transmission and reducing the impact on local public health. Companies that establish testing strategies in conjunction with an effective active search demonstrate a real concern for maintaining healthy work environments for workers”.

In August, the local government of the southern Chinese city, Shenzhen, reported that a sample of frozen chicken wings imported from a Brazilian Aurora Alimentos slaughterhouse located in Santa Catarina had tested positive for Covid-19. Hong Kong subsequently suspended chicken imports from this Aurora unit and the slaughterhouse voluntarily suspended the unit’s exports to China.

Aurora is third in the ranking of Brazilian chicken-exporting companies, as can be seen in the chart below:

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