central valley

The coronavirus is spreading rapidly in California’s San Joaquin Valley and filling its hospitals

A poultry-processing plant where at least 358 workers have tested positive for the coronavirus and eight have died was ordered by county health officials in California to temporarily shut down, officials said Thursday.

Two cities in California’s Central Valley defied the state’s health orders by allowing all businesses to open during the pandemic, and now Governor Newsom is withholding money from them.

As coronavirus cases spike in California’s Central Valley, the state will send “strike teams” to help staff hospitals in the vast agricultural region and spend $52 million to speed up testing and help infected people quarantine so they don’t infect others, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday. The aid is going to eight counties that are home to more than 4…