Several workers at a major Tesco distribution centre serving North East supermarkets have tested positive for coronavirus.
The "small number" of warehouse staff who contracted the virus are now quarantining at home.
The outbreak happened at Tesco's huge base in the Deans area of Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland. The facility, which is the size of 712 tennis courts, supplies goods to 318 Tesco branches across North East England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
It operates for 364 days a year and employs as many as 1,800 people while its delivery trucks span 260,000 miles a week, reports EdinburghLive.
In light of the outbreak, the supermarket giant has assured that proper Covid-19 measures are in place to ensure the safety of staff.
A Tesco spokesperson said: "The small number of colleagues that have tested positive for Covid-19 at our Livingston Distribution Centre are self-isolating and their close contacts have been informed.
"We take the health and safety of our colleagues extremely seriously and are working closely with public health authorities.
"We have measures in place to ensure colleagues stay 2m apart throughout our centres and hand-sanitiser, masks, gloves and visors available to all colleagues.”
The warehouse has 70 twelve-metre-high aisles.
The coronavirus cluster at the Tesco distribution centre follows a large-scale outbreak at the 2 Sisters food processing plant in Coupar Angus.
The number of cases connected to the chicken factory outbreak reached 201 on September 2.
Of those, 174 were factory workers and a further 27 were community contacts.
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