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  • UK Food Processing Plants with Covid-19 Coronavirus outbreaks

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...in-northampton
    Nearly 300 workers test positive at M&S sandwich supplier in Northampton

    Greencore started testing staff after local rise in coronavirus cases

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/13...-boris-johnson

    9.32pm update: Coventry COVID outbreak: Nearly 200 banana packers to be tested after staff contract virus

    Nearly 200 staff members at a fruit distribution centre are to be urgently tested for coronavirus after 10 workers contracted the disease.

    Bosses at Fyffes Group Ltd in Coventry have taken drastic action in a bid to quell an outbreak of the potentially deadly virus.

    All 186 staff will undergo testing as a "precaution", Coventry City Council said. Social distancing measures at the plant will also be stepped up
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    https://www.ft.com/content/7cf0f3c0-...9-4f8a185e9194

    200 confirmed cases at a chicken processing plant in Anglesey

    https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/h...fe-eat-2891606

    In the UK, three large food factories have closed in England and Wales after around 250 workers tested positive for coronavirus. Unite union said it was aware of further suspected outbreaks at five other UK sites.
    At least 38 staff have tested positive at Rowan Foods in Wrexham, a site which makes food for UK supermarkets.
    On Thursday, June 18, 2 Sisters Food Group announced it would be closing its Anglesey plant for two weeks after 58 people tested positive. The total number of infections is now reported to have reached 158.

    The Kober plant, a meat processing site owned by Asda in West Yorkshire, became the third plant to confirm a new cluster of infections after around 150 workers became ill.
    "The only security we have is our ability to adapt."
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