Cargill meat plant near High River - The Canadian Press

By The Canadian Press

Victim of COVID-19 remembered as Cargill reopens

May 4, 2020 | 6:30 PM

CALGARY, AB. – As a large meat-packer in southern Alberta reopened for business on Monday, May 4, the husband of a worker who died at the plant remembered her at a memorial as “a wonderful wife.”

Hiep Bui (HIP BUOY), who was 67, worked at Cargill for 23 years and was responsible for picking out beef bones from hamburger meat.

She died of COVID-19 on April 19, the day before the plant shut down for two weeks after cases there spiked.

Her husband told the memorial in Calgary that Bui spoiled him and never argued with him.

He said he is numb and lost after his wife’s death, and hopes Cargill will be able to control safety at the plant so there won’t be any other victims.

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Cargill says Alberta Health Services is on-site for ongoing screening to safeguard employees.

There have been more than 900 cases of COVID-19 among the two-thousand workers at the slaughterhouse near High River, south of Calgary.

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