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Adelmo, a Guatemalan migrant worker about to head home in time for Christmas after a two-year stint at a Leamington greenhouse, hopes to return someday to Canada to work again, but not if itâs with the same employer.
Half of the more than two weeks he spent this month at hotels in Leamington and then Windsor in COVID-19 quarantine was spent in isolation and fear.
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For the first week after he tested positive, Adelmo said he was ignored and completely on his own, with no communication from his employer or health authorities. Three times a day, a meal was dropped off outside his door, and he was told not to leave the room.