Filipino workers at meatpacking plant tied to Canada's biggest COVID-19 outbreak feel unfairly blamed - News Summed Up

Filipino workers at meatpacking plant tied to Canada's biggest COVID-19 outbreak feel unfairly blamed


Cases connected to the Cargill meat plant outbreak have increased dramatically over the past two weeks. As of Friday, there were 558 cases in workers from the plant, with 798 total cases linked to the coronavirus outbreak. Because instead of helping [the Filipino community], supporting them, understanding them, they're still making fun of us," Ton said. Feeling blamedOne employee at the Cargill plant, a woman of Vietnamese background in her sixties, has died. "That's why I think it's important that public leaders need to speak out and say, no, this is our common, collective issue, it's not an issue of the Filipino community," Cala said.


Source: CBC News April 26, 2020 20:15 UTC



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