"Nearly 200 workers test positive for COVID-19 at Foster Farms poultry plant in Fresno", 4 Dec 2020

Foster Farms will shut down its facility on Cherry Street in Fresno following a coronavirus outbreak, according to company officials.

Over the past two weeks, 193 workers at the 1,400-person facility in southwest Fresno tested positive for COVID-19, according to Ira Brill, vice president of communications for Foster Farms. None of the employees exhibited any symptoms, Brill told The Fresno Bee...

The outbreak in Fresno follows another Foster Farms outbreak in Livingston, where seven workers were identified as COVID-19 positive. The Livingston plant in Merced County was previously ordered to shut down late this summer, during one of the deadliest outbreaks in the state, according to Merced County public health officials.

The outbreak resulted in 92 Foster Farms employees testing positive for COVID-19, nine of whom died...

Since the pandemic’s initial outbreak earlier this year, at least two Fresno Foster Farms employees have died from coronavirus-related complications, the company has said previously.