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On April 5 the wife of Anthony Germain fell ill with a fever, he says.
他說，4月5日，安東尼·杰曼的妻子發燒生病了。
(Germain, who doesn't work for JBS, insisted on anonymity for his wife to protect her and other family members from losing their jobs at the plant.)
（杰曼不在JBS公司工作，他堅持讓妻子匿名，以保護她和其他家庭成員不致失去工廠的工作。）
She was still vomiting a few days later, but her fever was gone, so a JBS nurse told her to come back to work, he says.
他說，幾天后，她還在嘔吐，但已經不發燒了，所以JBS公司的一名護士告訴她要回去工作。
She tested positive for the virus on April 10.
她在4月10日進行的病毒檢測呈陽性。
A plant superintendent followed up with a phone call and instructed Germain's wife not to tell anyone she had Covid-19, according to Germain,
一位工廠主管隨后打電話，指示杰曼的妻子不要告訴任何人，她感染了新冠病毒。
who says he listened to the call and was outraged by the breach of pandemic protocol.
杰曼說他聽到了通話，對違反疫情協議感到憤怒。
"Hell no, I'm not keeping my mouth shut," he says.
“不，我不會閉口不談，”他說。
"They don't want to cause fear and panic in the plant, but that's already there.
“他們不想在工廠里引起恐懼和慌亂，但這種感覺已經存在了。
This is something that should not be kept in the dark."
JBS公司發言人妮基·理查森說，沒有人要求員工對患上新冠肺炎這件事保持沉默，
Nikki Richardson, a JBS spokeswoman, says no employee is asked to keep quiet about having Covid-19 and JBS informs workers when one tests positive.
當某位員工檢測結果呈陽性時，JBS公司會通知員工。
Employees with virus symptoms are sent home and no one is pressured to work sick, she says.
出現感染病毒癥狀的員工會被遣送回家，沒有人會在生病的情況下被迫工作。
The Texas health department has linked 243 Covid-19 cases to the Cactus plant, making rural Moore County a state hot spot.
德克薩斯州衛生部門已經將243例新冠肺炎病例與仙人掌工廠聯系起來，使位于鄉下的摩爾縣成為該州的熱點地區。
On Easter Sunday, April 12, 28-year-old Juan Manuel Jaime died of Covid-19 complications, one of two deaths among the plant's workers.
4月12日復活節，28歲的胡安·曼努埃爾·賈米死于新冠肺炎并發癥，這是該工廠兩名病死工人中的一例。
Jaime had worked sick at the JBS plant for almost two weeks because his supervisors wouldn't excuse him to see a doctor and insisted he keep working,
賈米的姑媽桑德拉·古茲曼說，賈米在JBS公司的工廠生病工作了近兩周，因為他的上司不準許他去看病，并堅持讓他繼續工作。
says his aunt, Sandra Guzman. After Jaime worked on Good Friday, his parents found him incoherent in his bed on Saturday evening.
賈米在耶穌受難日工作后，他的父母發現他周六晚上躺在床上語無倫次。
He died four hours later while being transported to an ICU in Amarillo, Texas.
四小時后，他在被送往德克薩斯州阿馬里洛的重癥監護病房時死亡。
Following his death, both parents got Covid-19, and his father spent a week in the hospital.
他去世后，其父母都患上新冠肺炎，他的父親住院一周。
Richardson says JBS did not know Jaime had Covid-19 until he died,
理查森說，JBS公司直到賈米去世前，都不知道他感染了新冠肺炎。
and the plant has been adding fever screenings, more social distancing, and extra protective gear to protect workers.
而且該廠一直在增加發熱檢測、設置更多的社交距離限制，以及提供額外的防護裝置來保護工人。
