Posted: Dec 15, 2020 3:36 PM AT | Last Updated: December 15, 2020
Eden Valley Poultry in Berwick, N.S., is the only federally regulated poultry processor in Nova Scotia and processes about 400,000 chickens and turkeys a week.(CBC)
The poultry plant in Berwick, N.S., that s trying to quash an outbreak of COVID-19 among its staff is creating a plan to reopen sooner than originally called for by Public Health, hoping provincial officials will sign off and let a skeleton crew return to work before the holidays.
Eden Valley Poultry shut down all operations last week after COVID-19 entered the facility and was apparently transmitted between staff. Out of about 450 employees, an initial round of testing revealed six cases. A second round of testing is supposed to take place this week.