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Trident Seafoods has reopened its Akutan, Alaska, processing plant after more than 40 percent of its workforce there contracted COVID-19.
According to a company press release, the plant resumed some processing on Friday, 19 February, almost a month after the plant ceased operations due to the COVID-19 outbreak, which began with four positive cases but ballooned into a major outbreak. More than 115 workers who had been quarantined in Sand Point and Anchorage have returned to Akutan and resumed work on crab, cod, and pollock processing, the company said. Just two workers at the plant remain positive for COVID-19, and both are being isolated, according to the Anchorage Daily News.