Comfrey Farm pork plant in Windom closes for 2 days because of coronavirus

Apr 23, 20200

Joseph Cress • Iowa City Press-Citizen count

In this Tuesday, April 21, 2020 photo, vehicles are seen in the parking lot on the first day of a temporary shutdown at a Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Columbus Junction, Iowa., due to an outbreak of COVID-19.

The wave of meat-plant closings because of coronavirus keeps rising as a second Minnesota processor - Comfrey Farm Prime Pork - has been idled along with a giant Tyson Foods pig slaughterhouse in Iowa.

COVID-19 cases also have surfaced at meat plants in Minnesota owned by Hormel Foods, though none have prompted closures. Many U.S. meatpacking plants, where hundreds of people work in proximity, have become hives for the virus.

https://www.startribune.com/comfrey-farm-pork-plant-in-windom-closes-for-2-days-because-of-coronavirus/569865332/