UNITED STATES - 2012/10/22: Chicken chicks in a chicken house. (Photo by John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images) LIVINGSTON, Calif. - A chicken processing plant in central California has been ordered to shut down after it became the site of one of the largest and most severe COVID-19 outbreaks in the state, health officials said.The order to close the Foster Farms Livingston Facility comes after at least 358 employees have tested positive, and eight employees have died due to the coronavirus, according to a letter obtained from the Merced County Health Department, the Merced Sun-Star reported Thursday.The plant was ordered to shut down on Wednesday but Merced County’s spokesperson Mike North said Thursday county officials issued a 48-hour.