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Alberta says it didn't close slaughterhouse because firm had been 'successful' in preventing COVID-19 spread Alberta's chief medical officer of health says the province chose not to shut down a slaughterhouse that is the site of a growing COVID-19 outbreak that claimed the life of one worker because for months the company had been successfully keeping transmission down.  Social Sharing

Article content Alberta hog farmers will face some difficult choices if the Red Deer pork processing facility at the centre of a major COVID-19 outbreak cannot reopen promptly. On Monday, Quebec-based Olymel announced it will close its Red Deer plant for an “indefinite period” because of the outbreak, which has resulted in 326 cases of COVID-19 among the facility’s employees as of Monday. One worker — a man in his 30s with no pre-existing health conditions — has died from the disease. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Hog farmers must ...

There have been mass infections at other meat-packing facilities in the province, including Cargill in High River and JBS Canada in Brooks

A new outbreak of COVID-19 has been declared at Cargill's High River meat-processing plant.