The Corona Triangle Part II: Technical Report Immo Fiebrig • Larissa Bombardi • Pablo Nepomuceno Introduction Within the last three months, the international press has reported several cases of slaughterhouse workers infected with COVID-19. According to the news, many of these slaughterhouses seem to be some sort of super-spreading hot spot. Three countries - the United States, Germany and Brazil - drew the attention of the authors, because of their own nationalities and/or because of the representation that these countries have in the world’s production and export of pork. These countries will therefore be the focus of this report. In terms of the ranking in world pig production1, China ranks first, followed by the United States and the European Union with Brazil coming fourth. Amongst EU countries, Germany ranks first and slaughters 23% of the EU total of pigs2. In these three countries of focus, there has been a considerable amount of complaint involving cases of ...