An outbreak at a Calgary bird processing plant resulted in thirteen cases of COVID-19.
Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Medical Director of Health of Alberta, said Monday that there were active and two recovered instances similar to the Lilydale plant in Ramsay, at 2126 Hurst Road S.E.
The plant is owned by Sofina Foods Inc., which operates 16 plants in Canada. CBC News contacted the company for feedback.
In April, United Food and Commercial Workers sent a letter to Sofina Foods calling for the Calgary plant to close after one tested positive.
Meat processing plants were heavily affected by pandemic epidemics. An outbreak at a Cargill facility in southern Alberta was at one point the largest outbreak in a single site in North America.
The Lilydale outbreak is one of two new outbreaks in Calgary announced Monday. The second, at the Peter Lougheed Center in the northeast of the city, is similar to six cases in the hospital’s addiction and intellectual fitness unit, Alberta Health Services said.
There are 1,172 COVID-19 assets in Alberta.
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