OMAHA - Tyson Foods is looking into reports that China has suspended poultry imports from a Tyson facility in the United States after coronavirus cases were confirmed among its employees.

A Tyson spokesman said the plant in question is in Springdale, Arkansas. There have been several other COVID-19 outbreaks at Tyson plants around the United States, including in Nebraska, Iowa and North Carolina.

In November, China lifted a five-year ban on U.S. poultry. China had blocked U.S. poultry imports a month after an outbreak of avian influenza in December 2014, closing off a market that brought more than $500 million worth of American chicken, turkey and other poultry products in 2013.

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