Smithfield Foods offers COVID-19 shots at Sioux Falls plant

Sioux Falls Smithfield Plant. File photo.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) –Smithfield Foods in Sioux Falls is getting some of their workers vaccinated for the coronavirus.

The company is offering COVID-19 shots tomorrow (Friday) at the food processing plant. Last year, hundreds of workers were infected with the virus. Five-hundred doses of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine come from the South Dakota Department of Health and will be administered by Avery Health.

(Todd Epp, contributed to this report.)