Forty-four people have now tested positive for coronavirus at a meatpacking plant in Breslau, Ont., according to Waterloo Public Health.
Waterloo’s acting medical officer of health Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang said that the agency informed Conestoga Meats of the situation Thursday afternoon. “We informed Conestoga Meats that a total of 44 people who worked at the plant have tested positive for COVID-19,” she said. “Of the positive cases, 12 have resolved to date.” The number is a drastic jump from the 11 people who had tested positive by May 1.
Cases were first reported at the plant in early April. Wang believes that some of the transmissions occurred at the plant but others would have happened elsewhere. “We know that these are work environments where