Nearly 400 workers at a Missouri pork processing plant tested positive for the coronavirus, with none of them showing any symptoms, Business Insider reports. Those workers who tested positive were offered the chance to stay home, with pay, the company’s CEO says.
Triumph Foods employs about 2,800 workers at its plant in St. Joseph, north of Kansas City. Last week, the company tested all of its employees for the coronavirus. Of those tested, 374 of them — nearly 13 percent of the facility’s workforce — tested positive.
None of those 374 employees who tested positive had shown any symptoms of COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus.
CEO Mark Campbell told his workforce that those employees who tested positive will be asked to stay at home for an undisclosed amount of time. They’ll be paid, and not docked vacation or sick time, while they self-isolate. Further, they’ll all be sent care packages containing hand sanitizer and masks.
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