Health
Meatworks mull ‘robot butchers’ as abattoirs become COVID-19 hotspots – The Australian
Colac — a small regional city of about 12,000 people with the Otway Ranges to its south and the wide pastures of Victoria’s Western District to its north — thought it was relatively safe from the coronavirus outbreak that is spreading across Melbourne like a …
Colac a small regional city of about 12,000 people with the Otway Ranges to its south and the wide pastures of Victorias Western District to its north thought it was relatively safe from the coronavirus outbreak that is spreading across Melbourne like a bushfire.
But last month a COVID-19 ember hit the city’s lamb meatworks on the shores of Lake Colac. The virus spread across the abattoir, which now is linked to 54 infections and has regional Victorians in the state’s west on edge, while the m…
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