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'So much worse than I expected': one worker's time at a virus-hit farm | Environment | The Guardian

So far 73 positives, many asymptomatic,

200 workers. 37 mobile homes.

That is between 5 and 6 people per mobile home. theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/j…
They are living on top of one another.

But I have a question. How long has the outbreak gone on if she worked for them for 3 weeks and only had to spend the first in quarantine.

That suggests somewhere 15 -21 June.

Yet the spike is only showing up in test data yesterday
Most of the workers were from Bulgaria and Romania. Karen (not her real name) was one of three English female packers, who shared one of the 33 mobile homes on the site at a cost of £50 each per week.
She earned £8.85 per hour for the first 48 hours a week and £11.06 thereafter, often working 12-hour shifts or longer.
If she worked for them for 3 weeks and had to quarantine only in the first when did local PH first know about positive tests?

Because, if Karen has just left that must put it way back 15-21 June.

Yet the spike is only just being recorded c.yesterday-today.
I wonder if earlier (but lesser) CV19 spikes in Hereford were associated with this farm or other like places.

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