A Meat Giant Is Anxious as Virus Shuts Two Brazil Chicken Plants
- More closures ‘will happen,’ government official says
- JBS, BRF chicken plants in same state shut over 24 hours
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Two giant meat companies in Brazil, the world’s top chicken exporter, were ordered to shut a poultry plant in the past 24 hours, and analysts warned more closures loom as the coronavirus threatens food supplies.