Tyson reopens largest US pork plant in Iowa two weeks after it was shuttered amid COVID-19 outbreak

Tyson Foods Inc is preparing to reopen its largest US pork plant where at least 444 workers tested positive for COVID-19 and two died. Tyson Foods is preparing to reopen its largest US pork processing plant in Waterloo, Iowa, this week after a coronavirus outbreak sickened at least 444 workers and killed two Some of the largest slaughterhouses and processing plants across the United States have been forced to close in recent weeks due to outbreaks among workers. The Tyson plant in Columbus Junction had 221 positive tests, 26 percent of its workforce, and Tyson's Waterloo facility had 17 percent of its employees test positive. That is 58 percent of their workforce America's mounting meat crisis has been laid bare in pictures showing empty store shelves across the country after processing plants were forced to slow production or close It comes after 890 of the 2,200 workers at the Tyson plant in Logansport, Indiana - about 40 percent of employees - tested positive for coronavirus in less than a week. A two-story duplex in Waterloo, Iowa, where two tenants who worked for Tyson died within days of each other from COVID-19 In Grand Island, an outbreak linked to a JBS beef plant that is the city's largest employer spread rapidly across the rural central Nebraska region, killing more than three dozen people.