A South Dakota plant operated by Smithfield Foods, a Chinese-owned meat company with facilities across the United States, is now possibly the largest CCP virus outbreak hot spot in the United States.
More than 518 employees at the Sioux Falls pork processing plant have tested positive for the virus, and 126 non-employees have become infected after coming into contact with a Smithfield employee, said the South Dakota Department of Health. Meanwhile, in the past 24 hours, 80 of South Dakota’s 180 new cases came from people who work at the Smithfield plant, according to the local Argus Leader newspaper and KELO.
