N.C. not doing enough to protect immigrant farmworkers from coronavirus, advocates say
Story Date: 7/6/2020

SOURCE:  NEWS & RECORD, 7/4/20

Reported coronavirus cases are rising among seasonal farmworkers living in migrant worker housing, a group setting like nursing homes that the state is watching. On Tuesday, 128 new COVID-19 cases across four farms were reported through June, according to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. That was more than double the 49 cases previously reported by The News & Observer. They bring the total number of infected farmworkers living in the camps to 177.

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