By Frances Perraudin (now) and Helen Sullivan (earlier)
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11.31am BST
The coronavirus outbreaks that have struck workers in meat plants around the world are due to poor working conditions and living quarters in a sector that is in a “disastrous race to the bottom” in the quest for cheap meat, trade union representatives have said.
Meat plants have persistently been centres for outbreaks, with some of the biggest clusters in the US and Canada focused on slaughterhouses. According to the Food and Environment Reporting Network (Fern), which has been tracking the outbreaks, nearly 30,000 meat plant workers across the US and Europe have been infected with the virus and more than 100 have died.
11.20am BST
A two-day lock down in which residents will be barred from leaving their homes, except for work or urgent necessities, is to be imposed in a northern city of Kazakhstan after a jump in Covid-19 cases.
The move continues a trend towards weekend restrictions in the oil-rich nation of 19 million which has seen the number of coronavirus. cases more than quintuple to about 28,000 since lifting a nationwide lockdown in mid-May.
Source: Coronavirus live news: WHO reports record daily global case increase as known infections pass 8.9m
