A reception facility for asylum seekers (AfA) in Hermeskeil has reported a huge number of cases, after initially having eight confirmed cases by midday Friday 28 August.
Since then a further 46 people have tested positive. After evaluating all tests, there are now 54 infected residents in the facility.
All residents of the AfA – and thus also those with negative test results – are in quarantine and are not allowed to leave the facility.
In order to ensure the quarantine orders, the AfA security forces have been reinforced on the ground and are supported by the police.
Outside of the AfA, there are three other coronavirus cases in the district and in the city of Trier – two in the city of Trier and one in the district.
Added to the cases in the AfA, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases since March 11 has thus increased to 501 (336 districts and 165 city of Trier).
Currently, 10 patients from the district (plus 54 patients from the AfA Hermeskeil) and 6 from the city of Trier are considered as coronavirus-positive.
A total of five people are receiving inpatient treatment in Trier hospitals.
All those tested who tested positive in the AfA are doing well according to reports from district officials.
To a large extent, they are also symptom-free. The COVID-19 patients are housed in their own buildings of the AfA separately from the other residents.
AfA employees have also been tested, and for almost all of them, the results are now available – with no positive cases discovered so far.
