BIW COVID-19 count continues to climb
As of Wednesday, BIW reported 63 new cases so far this month, according to the company’s website.
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BATH Cases of COVID-19 continues to climb among workers at Bath Iron Works, but a company spokesman said closing any of its facilities due to COVID-19 “is not an option.”
BIW, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, has reported new cases nearly every day for the past seven weeks. As of Wednesday, BIW reported 63 new cases so far this month, according to the company’s website.
The company reported 56 employees tested positive for COVID-19 in December 2020. Since March, 168 employees have tested positive, the company reported.
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The USS Daniel Inouye coasted down the Kennebec River this month on its way to at-sea trials. The defense policy bill vetoed by President Trump on Wednesday approves two new Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, one of which will be built at Bath Iron Works. Kathleen O Brien / The Times Record
Number of COVID-19 cases have jumped at Bath shipyard
The company has announced new COVID-19 cases nearly every day since Monday, Nov. 16. Since then, 66 workers have tested positive for COVID-19.
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BATH COVID-19 cases at Bath Iron Works, one of the state’s largest employers, have jumped this month as the shipyard works to recover from crippling delays worsened by a strike and the pandemic.
According to the company’s website, 84 workers have tested positive for COVID-19 since March. Of those, 59 cases have come from the main shipyard in Bath.
BIW, a subsidiary of aerospace and defense company General Dynamics, reported 38 employees have tested positive so far this month and 29 have tested positive in the past week. Those workers were last at work between Nov. 18 and Dec. 9.