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12th Foster Farms worker in the Central Valley dies of COVID-19, sparking new safety concerns Rong-Gong Lin II © (Andrew Kuhn / Merced Sun-Star) Foster Farms employee Kevin Vera, 28, center, attends a Sept. 3 candlelight vigil in Livingston, Calif., for the victims of a coronavirus outbreak at Foster Farms Livingston plant. (Andrew Kuhn / Merced Sun-Star) The death of a 12th Foster Farms worker from COVID-19 in California s Central Valley is raising new concerns about safety at such food processing facilities. The worker s family said the employee, who was of Punjabi descent and in his 50s, had been called back into the Foster Farms poultry processing plant on Cherry Avenue in Fresno, got sick with COVID-19 and spent the last three weeks in an intensive care unit before dying over the weekend, according to Deep Singh, executive director of the Jakara Movement, a Central Valley youth and family nonprofit that works with the Punjabi Sikh community.

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