Chicken plant closes after coronavirus outbreak Public Health Wales says there are 51 confirmed coronavirus cases at 2 Sisters. The giant meatpacking company at the heart of Germany's new coronavirus hotspotA fresh coronavirus outbreak in Germany has placed the country's massive meat processing industry under intense scrutiny, after more than 1,500 workers were infected at a family-owned slaughterhouse in North Rhine-Westphalia. Are slaughterhouses turning into coronavirus factories?Health experts say it's not just the working conditions inside meatpacking plants that can increase the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks: in Germany, many of the industry's workers are migrants living in cramped communal housing. Why are there outbreaks in meat processing plants?Why have hundreds of workers tested positive for coronavirus at abattoirs and meat processing plants? Meat factory workers test positive for coronavirusStaff at Tulip Ltd are tested after 10 cases of coronavirus are confirmed. Food-related Covid-19 outbreaks raise flags about supply securityIn Europe, South America and the US, meat processing plants have been hotspots for the spread of the virus. Poor conditions in meat plants fuel Covid-19 outbreaks, say unionsSector faces calls for action after report reveals scale of infections among workers Chicken plant closes after 75 workers test positive for coronavirusFactory has contracts with thousands of UK supermarkets German official wants probe into major coronavirus outbreak at slaughterhouseBERLIN — Germany’s agriculture minister said Thursday that conditions at a slaughterhouse where hundreds of workers tested positive for COVID-19 were untenable and backed an official investigation … 158 chicken factory workers positive for Covid-19More than 400 staff have now been tested following the outbreak at the chicken factory on Thursday. Why are there so many outbreaks at meat factories?'We never stopped as an industry,' trade body official says 75 chicken factory staff test positive for Covid-19All workers at the 2 Sisters chicken factory on the islands are being tested for Covid-19. 'Different reasons' for food factory covid casesAlmost 100 staff working at two different companies test positive for coronavirus. Three meat factories in England and Wales close over coronavirusMore than 100 staff test positive across plants in West Yorkshire, Anglesey and Wrexham Welsh chicken factory closed for two weeks over Covid-19 in staffFifty-eight coronavirus cases confirmed among workers at 2 Sisters facility on Anglesey Coronavirus: Staff at chicken factory supplying KFC and M&S self-isolate after COVID-19 outbreakThe "cluster" of coronavirus cases took place at the 2 Sisters chicken processing plant in Llangefni, North Wales.