Anonymous ID: a09373 April 26, 2020, 8:52 p.m. No.8933660   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3701

Half of workers test positive for COVID-19 at Wenatchee-area orchard

komonews.com/news/local/half-of-workers-test-positive-for-covid-19-at-wenatchee-area-orchard

 

WENATCHEE, Wash. - Dozens of workers at a Central Washington orchard have tested positive for COVID-19 but were apparently not showing signs of the illness.

 

Stemilt Ag Services, which operates the orchard, and local health officials tested the farm workers in East Wenatchee after some fruit packaging warehouse workers tested positive.

 

The company said it decided to expand testing to orchard workers as a precaution.

 

The company says of the 71 agricultural workers who were tested, 36 were positive for COVID-19.

 

United Farm Workers and other advocates filed a lawsuit earlier this month against Washington state, arguing that farm workers do not have adequate protections.

>This is just one of many artices I am seeing about food supply and Covid, Foster Farms Tyson, etc, now apples