Source: Aaron Sanchez-Guerra, NEWS & OBSERVER, 8/18/20


COVID-19 outbreaks popping up in farms across rural North Carolina struck the small town of Sparta in the state’s northwestern corner and resulted in the single largest outbreak in Alleghany County. With 112 cases as of Tuesday, Bottomley Evergreens & Farms also has the biggest outbreak among farmworkers housed by farmers during the season, workers who are brought from Mexico with H-2A visas for temporary agricultural work. That’s more than a quarter of the farm’s nearly 400 workers.

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