Some farmers in the Ontario community balked at the extra restrictions imposed on migrant workers
The Norfolk County farmer at the centre of a COVID-19 outbreak says he spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to protect the community.
“I said right from the beginning, I want to make sure I clear this virus and make sure I’m not bringing it in,” Biddle said. “Everybody was cleared over 25 days ago with no symptoms, and now we have these 125 positive cases that just popped up.” Biddle said he believes that testing of the general population would show many people to be asymptomatic and positive for the virus.
The federal agency that oversees the temporary foreign worker program has also been advised of the outbreak, Terry said.
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