By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Cargil
By Rod Nickel
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Cargill Inc will shut a part of its Guelph, Ontario beef processing plant on Thursday due to an outbreak of COVID-19 infections amongst staff, a public well being group mentioned.
Cargill CARG.UL voluntarily agreed to the closure as 82 staff examined optimistic for the virus, the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Well being company mentioned. As a precaution 129 different individuals had been self-isolating.
“Once we see an outbreak of this dimension, we should use the entire instruments obtainable to us to comprise the outbreak and make sure the neighborhood at giant is protected,” mentioned Dr. Matthew Tenenbaum, Affiliate Medical Officer of Well being for Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Well being.
A Cargill spokeswoman couldn’t be instantly reached.
The Guelph plant is the most recent in a string of North American meat crops to droop or scale back manufacturing in the course of the pandemic, though the most important closures occurred in spring, together with at Cargill’s Excessive River, Alberta plant.
Since then, packers have carried out new protecting measures for staff, corresponding to better bodily separation in crops that always contain elbow-to-elbow working situations.
The spring meat plant closures in Canada and the US left farmers on the time with few choices to slaughter market-ready cattle and pigs, inflicting a glut of livestock.
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(Reporting by Rod Nickel in Winnipeg Modifying by Chris Reese and Grant McCool)
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