“… The Defense Health Agency is ‘taking seriously’ a presumptive positive of COVID-19, according to an internal email obtained by GovernmentCIO Media & Research and a source at the agency. That person’s work area is being cleaned and everyone who came into contact with the individual has been notified, the email said. ‘A U.S. Navy civilian employee at the US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) in Falls Church, VA tested ‘presumptive positive’ for the coronavirus (COVID-19), marking the first positive case of a U.S. Navy civilian in Virginia. The individual is currently at a hospital in Northern Virginia under medical care in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines. The positive test result is considered a presumptive positive, pending confirmatory testing by CDC,’ according to a press release. ‘Additional precautionary measures may be taken…’” Read the full article here.
Source: Developing: Federal Agencies Take Action on COVID-19 Prevention Efforts – March 10, 2020. GovernmentCIO.
