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Fayetteville Area System of Transit (FAST) has suspended multiple bus routes after three employees tested positive for COVID-19.
The following bus routes are suspended due to the shortage of drivers:
Route 9 - Stacy Weaver Drive/Rosehill Road
Route 10 - Strickland Bridge Road
Route 11 - Country Club Drive/Pamalee Drive
Route 15 - Cape Fear Valley Medical Center/Cross Creek Mall
Route 19 - Yadkin Road
Route 7 - Raeford Road will operate on a reduced service schedule.
At least 30 other people are in quarantine following exposure. The initial employee tested positive for COVID-19 on Feb. 10. The City of Fayetteville Human Resource Development team is working on contact tracing
DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) The family of Aurea Soto Morales visits a memorial tree planted
in her honor in front of Creekside Elementary in Durham twice a week. Aurea was only 8 years old when she died
Aurea is one of more than 10,000 North Carolinians with the novel coronavirus who have died. I never wish anything like this to happen, because as we ve seen, the community has been ravaged by this virus, and we ve seen how it s impacted tons of people, said her sister Jennifer Morales, 18. We know those deaths were someone s sons, daughters, children, their parents, grandparents. They were part of someone s family.