More Than 70 Workers Test Positive for Covid-19 on an English Farm

More Than 70 Workers Test Positive for Covid-19 on an English Farm
A police officer wearing a surgical face mask stands at the entrance to AS Green and Co farm in Mathon, Herefordshire, United Kingdom, on July 12, 2020. Matthew Horwood/Getty Images
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LONDON—Around 200 people employed to pick crops at a farm near Malvern in England’s West Midlands region have been told to self-isolate after 73 of them tested positive for COVID-19, Public Health England (PHE) and Herefordshire Council said on Sunday.

The number of new confirmed COVID-19 cases across Britain each day has been falling from a peak of more than 6,000 in April to 650 in the latest figures released on Sunday, despite wider availability of testing.