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Cargill to idle Canadian meat plant after COVID cases
Isis Almeida and Marcy Nicholson, Bloomberg News Signage is displayed outside the Cargill Inc. meat plant in Chambly, Quebec, Canada, on Monday, May 11, 2020. The case-ready facility for beef, pork, chicken and sausage has shut down as the company is âconcerned about the number of cases in the community and among our employees,â according to a May 9 statement. Photographer: Christinne Muschi/Bloomberg , Bloomberg
Cargill Inc. is temporarily shutting down its beef processing plant in the Canadian province of Ontario after some employees tested positive for Covid-19.
âAs we continue to prioritize the health and safety of Cargill employees, we have decided to temporarily idle our Guelph protein facility,â Jon Nash, Cargill Proteinâs North American leader, said Thursday in an emailed statement. âOur focus now is on continuing to keep our employees s
Cargill announces temporary shutdown at meat processing plant in Guelph after COVID-19 outbreak
A Cargill meat processing plant in Guelph will temporarily shut down after a COVID-19 outbreak at the facility. Public health reported on Thursday that 82 employees have tested positive for the virus.
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KITCHENER The Cargill meat packaging plant in Guelph has started the process to shut down temporarily due to COVID-19. The closure will come into effect on Thursday. Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health said, as of Thursday, 82 people at the facility have tested positive for COVID-19. In total, 129 people, both cases and close contacts, are self-isolating. “All outbreaks are serious,” said Dr. Matthew Tenenbaum, Associate Medical Officer of Health. “However, when we see an outbreak of this size, we must use all of the tools available to us to contain the outbreak and ensure the community at large is protected.” “As cases rise in our region, we will be at more risk for outbreaks. That’s why we must do all we can to keep cases low and respond quickly to any outbreaks.”
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) -Cargill Inc will begin to temporarily close its Guelph, Ontario beef processing plant on Thursday because of an outbreak of COVID-19 infections among workers, the company and a public health organization said.
FILE PHOTO: A Cargill logo is pictured on the Provimi Kliba and Protector animal nutrition factory in Lucens, Switzerland, September 22, 2016. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Cargill voluntarily agreed to the closure as 82 workers tested positive for the virus, the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health agency said. As a precaution, 129 other people were self-isolating.
“When we see an outbreak of this size, we must use all of the tools available to us to contain the outbreak and ensure the community at large is protected,” said Dr. Matthew Tenenbaum, Associate Medical Officer of Health for the agency.