18 Jun 2020 --- The COVID-19 pandemic has left a wide-sweeping mark on the global meatpacking sector, with the Germany-based Tönnies Group’s plant being the latest in a string of slaughterhouse outbreaks. In the coronavirus tests of the company’s Gütersloh district facility, four out of five tested positive. This has prompted the immediate closure of Tönnies’s facility for an indefinite period.