{"id":19337,"date":"2020-09-03T07:38:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T07:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=19337"},"modified":"2020-09-03T07:38:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T07:38:16","slug":"california-chicken-plant-closes-after-8-employees-die-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=19337","title":{"rendered":"California Chicken Plant Closes After 8 Employees Die from COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Sept. 2, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A Foster Farms chicken processing plant in Livingston, California where eight workers died of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak_2019-ncov\/article.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"slide\">COVID-19<\/a> and 392 tested positive will be closed for a week of cleaning.<\/p>\n<p>Following an order from county public health officials, the plant is scheduled to close from the evening of Sept. 1 to the evening of Sept. 7. Along with deep cleaning of the plant, all 1,400 people at the facility will be tested for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_2019-ncov_symptoms_and_signs\/symptoms.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"sym\">COVID-19<\/a>, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>If necessary, the plant closure will be extended, according to a statement from Foster Farms.<\/p>\n<p>The company also said it would take additional measures ordered by county health officials. &#8220;We further agree with the Merced Public Health Department that opportunities exist to enhance social distancing, add to professional healthcare staffing that will oversee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_2019-ncov\/article.htm\" rel=\"dt\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\">COVID-19<\/a> programs and improve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak_2019-ncov\/article.htm\" rel=\"slide\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\">COVID-19<\/a> related employee communication.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"credits\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MedicalNews\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images.medicinenet.com\/images\/HealthDay\/healthday.png\" style=\"border: none;\"\/><br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2019 HealthDay. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>                            <!--CONTINUEREADING--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=245972\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEDNESDAY, Sept. 2, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A Foster Farms chicken processing plant in Livingston, California where eight workers died of COVID-19 and 392 tested positive will be closed for a week of cleaning. Following an order from county public health officials, the plant is scheduled to close from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-life-style"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1596698165_fb-mnet-default.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}