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Migrant Worker Dies During Mandated Federal Quarantine

Tuesday, 25 May 2021 at 11:27

A migrant worker in Norfolk County has died after contracting COVID-19 while in the federal mandated 14 day quarantine period.

NORFOLK COUNTY - Another migrant farm worker has died during the Federal Government mandated quarantine this year.

Fausto Ramirez Plazas arrived in Canada from Mexico on April 22nd. He had tested negative on his mandatory pre-travel COVID-19 test and tested negative again up arrival. He was placed under quarantine by his employer Procyk Farms in Norfolk County along with other workers. They had three people staying in a bunkhouse during the quarantine. Fausto and one his coworkers tested positive for COVID on their mandatory 10 day test. The other person in the bunkhouse tested negative. Fausto died in hospital in Brantford on May 20. 

Farm Worker Organizer with the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change Luisa Ortíz says the Government needs to do a better job protecting these workers. 

"Clearly what the government is doing to supposedly protect workers is not enough. Only permanent immigration status will give workers the power to protect themselves from bad working conditions and from COVID. These workers are dying in quarantine mandated by the federal government, which means they are dying on the federal government’s watch. How many workers have to die before Justin Trudeau takes action and grants status for all?"

This is the 4th death of a migrant worker while in quarantine and the 5th migrant worker death thus far in 2021.

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