Airbus is investigating Covid cases at a European production site.
The aerospace giant said there have been "several occurrences" of Covid-19 infections in a production area at their Hamburg site, which assembles A320 family planes.
They are examining the potential effects on production on the site - which takes wings from Airbus Broughton in North Wales.
The health authorities are currently checking the variant of the virus to see if it is linked to the UK or any other new global variant.
The company was asked if this had any impact on the measures at UK sites at Broughton in North Wales and Filton, near Bristol but they said comprehensive measures are already in place.
An Airbus spokesman said: "The Health & Safety of our people, while maintaining business continuity, is our first and overriding priority.
"The appropriate measures, such as immediate series testing and quarantine, were initiated immediately as per established protocol in cooperation with the authorities.
"These are mandatory quarantine measures on the part of the authorities as well as on top precautionary, voluntary domestic isolation for those employees which entered the affected production area. Effects on production at the site are being examined.
"The cause of the cases is still under investigation. We are fully supporting the authorities. At this stage, we should not speculate on the findings."
They added: "At the start of the crisis in the spring of last year, we introduced comprehensive measures to protect the health of our employees, including distance regulations, explicit separation of teams and the wearing of masks, etc.
"The health and safety of our employees is a top priority. The implementation of these measures is routinely monitored on a daily basis."
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