December 12, 2020
(BLOOMINGTON) – On Friday, December 11, an employee of the Department of Public Works’ (DPW) Fleet Division received a positive result of a COVID-19 viral test administered on Tuesday, December 8.
The DPW employee is the first within that division to have had a positive test result. Having first experienced symptoms on Saturday, November 28, the employee has been on paid leave since Monday, November 30. No close contacts among co-workers or the general public were identified. Close contact is defined by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as someone who was within six feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes starting from two days before illness onset–or, for asymptomatic clients, two days prior to positive specimen collection–until the time the patient is isolated.) Cleaning protocols of equipment, facilities, and vehicles the employee used have been completed.