Nearly 900 employees, nearly 40% of the workforce at a Tyson Foods pork-processing plant in Indiana, have tested positive for coronavirus and hundreds of others still need to be screened, health official says.
The Cass County Health Department's administrator, Serenity Alter, said 890 employees at the plant have tested positive so far, and that a couple of hundred of others still need to be screened.
Hli Yang, a spokeswoman for the company, said the Logansport plant employs 2,200 people. She declined to confirm the number who have tested positive for the virus. "Since this is an ever-changing situation, we are not disclosing the number of confirmed cases associated with a plant," she told NBC News.
Yang said Tyson plans to resume limited production at the Logansport facility next week, following a plant tour with local health and government officials, a union representative and medical professionals. Tyson made the"We've worked closely with Cass County officials, Cass County health department officials, the mayor of Logansport and the local union chapter on a re-opening plan that we all believe will be safe for team members," Yang said.
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