Calls for urgent action on Covid-19 risk to meat plant workers

Up to 60% of meat plant workers are from abroad, with many coming from Brazil.

A cross-governmental committee must urgently address the risks to meat plant workers from the Covid-19 pandemic, a migrant rights group has demanded.

Meat plant workers accounted for 42% of workplace infections between November and February 13, according to the latest Health Protection Surveillance Centre figures.