Why meat processing plants have become Covid-19 hotbeds Meat packing plants become the latest Covid-19 hotbeds - CNN 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. Poor conditions in meat plants fuel Covid-19 outbreaks, say unionsSector faces calls for action after report reveals scale of infections among workers 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. 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 …