A farm in Germany’s Dingolfing-Landau district, where most of the 480 workers are Romanians, has been placed under quarantine, the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) announced. 

The local authorities have started testing the workers for the Covid-19 infection, but the results of the tests have not been communicated yet, MAE said. No requests for consular assistance from Romanian citizens were received.

Outside of the country, 5,329 Romanian citizens tested positive for coronavirus by July 26, most of them in Germany (2,401), Italy (1,891), and Spain (561).

Last week, 28 Romanians working at a farm in Herefordshire (the UK) and 19 at a farm in Swisttal (the Rhein-Sieg district, Germany) tested positive for coronavirus.

At the end of June, 100 Romanians in Magdeburg, in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, and 996 Romanian workers at the Tönnies meat processing factory, in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, in the North Rhine-Westfalia region, tested positive for the Covid-19 infection.

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