Cargill employees at the plant [had] tested positive for COVID-19." The county had the "highest number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the area with 982", of which 849 were in Hazelton. On April 20, 2020, Cargill temporarily closed its High River, Alberta, plant because "the operation was linked to nearly 500 cases of COVID-19". All 2,100 employees were recommended for virus testing. This plant was responsible for about 36% of Canada's beef producing capacity. On May 6, the plant was connected with 1,560 cases of COVID-19. United Food and Commercial Workers Canada (UFCW) Union Local 401 has recommended the plant's closure since 38 cases were known. The public health authority of Quebec did not shut down a Cargill plant in Chambly south of Montreal on May 10, 2020. A total of 64 employees, about 13% of the workforce, had COVID-19. The workers are represented by the UFCW. The public health department for the Montérégie region had been working with Cargill since April 25 to deal with the outbreak. Cargill closed the plant on its own. On May 11, a CBC journalist wrote, "The Cargill plant in Alberta, where there have been about 1,000 reported cases [of human COVID-19], is now considered the largest single-site outbreak in North America." Meanwhile, the Agriculture Union of CFIA's embedded inspectors at slaughterhouses said that management is "threatening disciplinary action against employees who refuse to be reassigned to work at COVID-19-infected meat plants", while Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland said, "those who feel unsafe won't be forced back to work." Also on May 11, the Alberta government disclosed that a second worker from the Cargill plant there had died that day. On 3 June 2020, Cargill announced that it would no longer publish quarterly results, stopping the disclosures that the company had provided since 1996. Cargill canceled its third-quarter earnings release in March 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Board of directors As of December 2016: Brandon Graham, Cargill family member Andrew C. Liebmann, Cargill family member John H. MacMillan IV, Cargill family member David D. MacMillan, Cargill family member John C. MacMillan, Cargill family member Anne Pedrero-MacMillan, Cargill family member Richard A. Cargill, Cargill family member David W. MacLennan, chairman and CEO of Cargill Todd Hall, executive vice president of Cargill Marcel H.M. Smits, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Cargill Joseph J. Stone, corporate senior vice president and chief risk officer of