Following a mass-testing event in Virginia the Eastern Shore Health District reported an 18 percent positive rate of the coronavirus at a poultry plant.
WTKR reported that district officials said they were able to test 1,380 people over two days on May 8 and 9. That testing was extended to workers at Perdue Farms in Accomac and Tyson Foods in Temperanceville, which revealed a count of about 510 combined between the two companies.
Perdue has not said how many of its workers have tested positive for COVID-19, but a representative for the company said 1,835 tests were conducted at the facility.
WAVY reported only 85 of the 510 cases have been included in the Virginia Department of Health's data so far.
“The labs that processed the tests are not connected to VDH electronic reporting and each result will have to be entered manually into the database to be counted,” the department said in a news release. “In addition, some of the positive cases do not reside in Virginia.”
The last of the results from the mass testing will be added to state data by Saturday, WAVY reported.
This story has been corrected to reflect that the number of people who tested positive for the coronavirus is combined from Perdue Farms and Tyson Foods.
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