Multiple Tesco workers at a major UK distribution centre have tested positive for coronavirus.
Infected staff at the massive supermarket warehouse in the Deans area of Livingston, West Lothian, are now quarantining at home and their families have been informed.
The two million square foot centre - the size of 712 tennis courts - sees 3.6m boxes of produce pass through each week and supplies 318 Tesco branches across Scotland, Northern Ireland and northeast England.
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.
