3 workers killed, 277 infected in coronavirus outbreak at E. Wash. beef plant

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A memorial to three employees who died of COVID-19 stands at the entrance to the Tyson Fresh Meats plant in Wallula, Wash. (KEPR-TV News photo)

WALLULA, Wash. – An outbreak of COVID-19 at an Eastern Washington meatpacking plant has now killed three employees there and infected 277 other employees.

A memorial with photos of the three employees who died now sits outside the entrance to the Tyson Fresh Meats beef plant in Wallula, Wash.

Guadalupe Olivera, Bernardo Torralba and Jorge Castaneda all contracted COVID-19 and died from complications related to the virus. All three men worked at Tyson for years.

Their pictures are adorned with flowers next to the plant’s entrance.

The coronavirus outbreak closed the plant for about two weeks while the Walla Walla County Department of Public Health conducted mass testing of the facility’s 1,400 employees.

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