Article 54QKZ 'Our bills won't wait': the town where farm laborers risk their lives to work amid Covid-19

'Our bills won't wait': the town where farm laborers risk their lives to work amid Covid-19

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Michael Adno in Immokalee, Florida
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In rural Florida, a lack of healthcare access and a dearth of testing has led to one of the densest concentrations of Covid-19 cases in the state

The threat of falling ill haunted Angelina Velasquez as spring spilled into summer. It followed her like a ghost as she boarded a bus alongside 40 other farmworkers every day. I've been worried," she said. But our bills don't wait, and we have to continue living despite the pandemic. We have to keep risking our lives."

The sound of Mexican corridos blanket the tiny town of Immokalee in south-west Florida every morning. At the center of town, dialects from Guatemala meld with Haitian creole as farmworkers load on to buses and push off into the state's fruit belt. But since April, a new sound cuts through the quiet streets.

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