Hundreds of Tyson Foods staff members screened for COVID-19 after Wilkes County break out

WILKES COUNTY, N.C.– A significant coronavirus fight is ramping up in Wilkes County.

The Wilkes County Health Department evaluated 200 employees who work at the Tyson Foods Processing Plant, a location that utilizes more than a thousand people in Wilkesboro.

The health department said the plant is connected to the majority of the county’s coronavirus cases, which now stands at 127.

Tyson Foods, in addition to the health department, hopes these screenings can decrease the variety of people getting contaminated.

” The health department has actually been in the center. They’re assisting and revealing them what they need to do,” stated Eddie Set