Source: Charles Duncan, NEWS & OBSERVER, 4/18/20


An employee at the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, tested positive recently for the coronavirus, days after the company closed several plants because of outbreaks among workers. Smithfield closed three meatpacking plants this week, starting with a large facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The company said Thursday that it would close two other plants in Cudahy, Missouri, and Martin City, Wisconsin, that rely on the Sioux Falls processing plant.

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