These pictures and videos show that staff at Wren Kitchens in Barton are still working in closer proximity than the government's two-metre order that was put in place to help tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

The footage was taken on Thursday, three days after Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared that people should not go to work unless it is essential and shows staff working closely together and using a fingerprint system to clock in, leaving workers "absolutely terrified" and "fearing for their lives".

As well as the staff mingling closely together, which increases the risk of catching Covid-19, workers have also reported that hand sanitiser is not being provided to employees and that the canteen is still open.

Drivers have also come forward to say that they are working up to 15 hours a day sitting in vans less than a metre next to one another, delivering shelving and other items to people's homes that are "not essential to the functioning of the kitchens they were part of".

But Wren Kitchens, owned by East Yorkshire billionaire Malcolm Healey, has said it is "absolutely essential" to continue its operations and staff are following government guidelines.

However, the firm has not responded with a comment in light of the new accusations.

As well as potentially hastening the spread of coronavirus, Wren Kitchens also sacked hundreds of staff across the country, leaving them without a without a wage amid the coronavirus pandemic after the firm says it had anticipated a reduction in economic activity due to the spread of the virus and has "identified team members who were under-performing", taking "steps to reduce its headcount accordingly".

In order to raise awareness of the situation at Wren Kitchens in Barton, in which staff can be seen standing closely together, one person on the site took pictures and videos, but now says that he lost his job working as an electrician for a sub-contractor to Wren Kitchens as a result.

As the man is self employed, he says he will have to wait until June to get financial support from the Government and has been left worried about how he will support his children and pay his rent and bills.

"There is no social distancing at Wren Kitchens in Barton and no social distancing whatsoever despite the rules that have been put in place to fight coronavirus," said the dad, who did not want to be named.

"There are mass gatherings and the canteen is always packed and hundreds of workers were still this week touching key pads with their fingers to get in, with no soap or hand sanitiser about whatsoever.

"Someone that works with me took pictures and videos of it all and now our company, who is a subcontractor of Wren Kitchens, has laid at least 20 of us off as a result.

"I've got three kids that are 14-years-old and younger and I pay child maintenance for them, so now I'm worried about how I'm going to support them as well as myself.

"I'm really stressed out about paying for my bills and rent as well as I'm self employed and won't get Government support until then, so I will only have enough for Universal Credit, which will no way give me enough to live off.

"I've got no money and no savings and I've lost my job because one of the lads was trying to do the right thing by taking pictures to show that people aren't social distancing.

"There is real poor hygiene on the site and people are still going about fist pumping each other and car sharing with about four or five in a car.

"People aren't washing their hands before they eat in the canteen either - it's a joke and it's not a safe place to work.

"Wren Kitchens shouldn't be able to have people continuing to work at the factories - nobody is immune from catching coronavirus, I mean look at the Prime Minister.

"It's not essential to have a kitchen fitted is it? The place needs shutting down".

As well as social distancing practices not being put in place in the Howden and Barton Wren Kitchen factories, delivery drivers have got in touch with Hull Live to say that they fear catching coronavirus by sitting in close proximity to each other and entering customer's homes to make "non-essential deliveries".

He claims that the firm profiteers and putting their staff and the nation at large at risk just to clear their existing order book

One driver said: "I work in a two-man crew for up to 15 hours a day in a cab sitting less than one-metre from my colleague.

"On Thursday we completed deliveries to 14 addresses. Only two were kitchens and one of those had their old kitchen still in place and fully functional.

"They even said they were amazed we'd come out and thought it was 'right out of order', which in my view it is.

"The other 12 deliveries were cosmetic items such as previously undelivered plinths and shelves and the like - none of which were essential to the functioning of the kitchens they were part of.

"On Friday, another load of trucks have gone out from my depot to do the same.

"Wren management are not solely authorising deliveries of kitchens to those without them at all. They are putting their staff and the nation at large risk just to clear their existing order book."

Amid the workers still being forced to go in to the factories, hundreds of people have signed an online petition to force Wren to close during the Covid-19 lockdown, and pay its staff 80 per cent of their wages through the Government.

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Unite, the UK and Ireland’s largest union, has demanded that Wren Kitchens immediately rehires hundreds of staff it fired in the midst of the coronavirus lockdown.

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In response to this a Wren Kitchens spokesman said: "Wren Kitchens is the UK’s largest kitchen retailer. We employ over 5,500 people.

"It is incumbent upon all retailers to carry out regular performance reviews, especially in these unprecedented times".