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John Deere announced it will lay off about 600 employees across three US factories as the Illinois-based company shifts production to a newly planned facility in Ramos, Mexico.
In mid-April 2020 the Smithfield plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, became a "hotspot" for the pandemic, with 300 of the plant's 3,700 employees testing positive for the disease. [107] On April 12 the company announced the indefinite closure of the plant, which processes 4 to 5 percent of the pork production in the United States.
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In France, closed borders prevented seasonal workers from entering the country. [198] The Minister of Agriculture called for jobless volunteers to contact strawberry farms to help collect the harvest. [198] Laboratory mice were culled, and some strains were at risk of shortage due to lockdowns early in the pandemic. [199]
Federal regulators responsible for the safety of the U.S. drug supply are still struggling to get back to where they were in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic upended factory inspections in the U ...
The test positivity rate also reached 12.4%. As of November 11, 5,042 Illinois residents were in hospitals due to coronavirus-like illnesses, with 951 in intensive care units and 404 on ventilators. [111] On November 12, Illinois set another new record for the most cases in a day with 12,702. [112]
Global manufacturing activity remained resilient in January although some countries suffered amid a resurgence in coronavirus infections, underscoring the fragile and uneven nature of the economic ...
On Christmas Eve, all restaurants, cafés and gastropubs closed again at 3 pm following the reimposition of lockdown restrictions until 12 January 2021 at the earliest, after a third wave of COVID-19 arrived in Ireland. [46] Due to the repeated extension of the lockdown, they remained closed throughout the first five months of 2021. [47]