The meat industry is insisting it's doing all it can to deal with Covid-19 outbreaks in meat plants. Meat Industry Ireland - which represents meat processors - issued the response after health authorities confirmed last night that there were a further 328 cases of the virus confirmed in meat plants in the last week.
There have now been 828 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the meat industry. The vast majority of confirmed cases are now no longer in the community, with outbreaks in meat plants accounting for a large number of cases announced every day.
The increase in clusters in those facilities has seen come counties weekly records spike dramatically too. Despite this the meat industry is insisting it is taking a wide range of measures to