Approximately 450 employees of Aliments Asta Inc., a pork packing plant in Quebec, have been ordered to stay home until COVID-19 test results are available in a few days.
They were all swabbed over the weekend by the federal government’s Health and Social Services Centre.
There are been 12 COVID-19 cases in the Lower Saint Lawrence region where the family-owned plant is located.
The plant slaughters about 1,000 pigs per year and has customers in 50 countries.
