Alberta beef plant, site of COVID-19 outbreak last year, to get vaccination clinic
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By The Canadian Press on April 8, 2021.
The Cargill plant, in High River, Alta., is seen on Thursday, April 23, 2020. Alberta Health Services says plans are underway to set up COVID-19 vaccination clinics at the meat-packing plant, which was the site of a major outbreak last year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
HIGH RIVER, Alta. – Thousands of workers at a southern Alberta beef-packing plant where there was a major COVID-19 outbreak last year will soon be offered vaccinations in their workplace.
Nearly half of the 2,200 workers at Cargill’s facility at High River, south of Calgary, which shut for two weeks last April, contracted the novel coronavirus and two employees died.