US farmers at risk of coronavirus

Farmers in Midwest fear shortages of food and labour if virus spreads into their rural communities.

Farmers in the United States are regarded as being in a high-risk group for the coronavirus pandemic.

That is despite working in the vast, open fields of the so-called “farm belt” in the Midwest.

Farmers there fear shortages of food and labour if the virus spreads into their rural communities.

Al Jazeera’s John Hendren reports from Chicago.