Petition calls for temporary shutdown of JBS plant as Brooks battles COVID-19 outbreak

After the latest batch of numbers released by Alberta Health Services, the city of Brooks accounts for about 90 per cent of all the cases of COVID-19 in the province’s south Zone. As of Monday evening, there were 581 confirmed cases in Brooks, with 568 of them currently classified as active. That’s led to the opening of a temporary assessment center for local residents at 4 Gun Club Road, set up by municipal partners and AHS, in direct response to the growing number of cases. The cen