SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) — Of the 1,168 reported coronavirus cases in South Dakota, 518 are with Smithfield workers and another 126 are from people who are friends or family of Smithfield workers.
That’s over half of South Dakota’s COVID-19 cases.
The department of health says that one infected person typically comes into contact with ten people.
And approximately ten percent of them end up contracting coronavirus in South Dakota.
The Centers for Disease Control is sending a response team to the Smithfield Plant in Sioux Falls.
That word is from Governor Kristi Noem.
The plant is a major COVID-19 hotspot, even by national standards.
(Mark Russo, KELO.com News, contributed to this report.)
