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Maple Lodge Farms poultry plant reports COVID-19 cases

By Global News   

News Farmer Health/Safety

One dead, 25 cases reported at Ontario facility.

A worker has died and more than two dozen people are sick amid an outbreak of COVID-19 at the Maple Lodge Farms poultry processing plant in Brampton, Ont., one of the largest chicken slaughterhouses in Canada.

Both the company and its union confirmed that an employee died this week after becoming infected with the virus.

They both also confirmed that 25 employees at the plant had COVID-19.

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