Over 1,000 Workers at Tyson’s Iowa Meat Plant Test Positive for COVID-19 or Antibodies

Tyson Foods employees are seen wearing protective masks and standing between plastic dividers at the company’s poultry processing plant in Camilla, Ga., in a file photo. Tyson Foods via AP

More than 1,000 workers at the Tyson Foods plant in Waterloo have tested positive for the CCP virus, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, according to multiple reports.

Health officials in Black Hawk County, where the plant is located, said Thursday they have identified 1,031 workers at the facility who have either tested positive for the virus or for antibodies that show they were earlier infected, The Associated Press reported.