connected to plants in North Wales, Yorkshire and further afield. On Anglesey, 200 cases have so far been linked to the 2 Sisters chicken plant in Llangefni, which was shut down last Thursday in the wake of growing numbers of infections.
In Wrexham, 70 people have also tested positive after an outbreak linked to the Rowan Foods factory. Most of those found to have the virus are workers there, although some people sharing a household with employees had also contracted coronavirus.A similar outbreak was recently seen in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, as well as in Ireland, the US, Germany and Spain during the course of the pandemic.At Tuesday’s meeting of Manchester council’s health scrutiny committee, the city’s public health officials were asked.