Meatpacking plants to stay open in US

Wednesday, 29 April 2020Newsdesk

Meat processing plants to stay open to protect the nation's food supply amid the coronavirus pandemic ordered US President Donald Trump. He invoked a Korean War-era law to mandate that the plants continue to function, amid industry warnings of strain on the supply chain.

New Delhi, 29 April 2020

As per news report of BBC, an estimated 3,300 US meatpacking workers have been diagnosed with coronavirus and 20 have died. The UN last month warned the emergency threatened global food supply chains. Twenty-two US meatpacking plants across the American Midwest have closed during the outbreak.

Source -BBC