The recent outbreak of COVID-19 at Scotlynn Group has led to the loss of around 3-million pounds of food.
But apart from the financial impact, Scott Biddle, the owner of Scotlynn group, says it’s the human impact that weighs on him.
So far, there have been more than 160 positive cases out of Scotlynn’s 216 migrant farmworkers, with seven at the NGH- three of those being “pretty ill”.
Biddle say’s they did everything they could to protect the community, going above and beyond the guidelines laid out by both the Federal government and the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit.
Continuing, he confirms that he will be paying the workers that are being quarantined.
A special “emergency response pay” and an influx of support from the community was not enough to save Scotlynn’s crop but Biddle says they are looking forward to the future.
Scotlynn has undergone a full cleaning and will be completing mandatory weekly testing, something he recommends more businesses should do.
Biddle adds that he can’t say where the workers may have visited and pointed out that their individually mandatory self-isolation upon arrival makes it appear likely that they contracted COVID-19 while in the region.
Last night, an official release was issued by the company regarding the outbreak as well.
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