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Quebec Cargill meat-processing plant to shut down after COVID-19 outbreak | CBC News

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May 10, 2020
Quebec Cargill meat-processing plant to shut down after COVID-19 outbreak | CBC News

A meat-processing plant in Chambly, Que., will shut down “for the health and safety of employees” after an outbreak of COVID-19.

A Cargill plant in High River, Alta., shut down last month after hundreds of infections of COVID-19 were reported. Another Cargill meat-processing facility in Quebec will close this week after a coronavirus outbreak.

A meat-processing plant in Chambly, Que., will shut down “for the health and safety of employees” after an outbreak of COVID-19.

Its owner, Cargill, says 64 employees have the disease, which amounts to about 13 per cent of workers at the facility about 35 kilometres south of Montreal.

The union representing the plant workers, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), says 171 e

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