On Friday, 4 staff members of the pilot waste insulation plant tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases at the nuclear waste depot near Carlsbad to 32.
The four workers of the Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP), the contractor overseeing WIPP’s day-to-day operations, were inflamed between Wednesday and Thursday, according to a WIPP press release.
Staff were last at the WIPP between August 16 and 27, according to the statement.
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They worked at WIPP and administrative WIPP at the Skeen Whitlock building in Carlsbad.
Three of the 4 were symptomatic.
Of the 32 reported WIPP inflamed with the virus, nine were found to have recovered, according to the rules of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
COVID-19’s most recent case report in WIPP raised the total to 23, with no published data on the other nine employees who tested positive.
“The Department of Energy and NWP continue to work with all painters to ensure that the physical fitness branch and CDC rules are followed,” it reads.
Cases from COVID-19 to WIPP.
Recent cases adhere to a report that an NWP tested positive on August 27 after getting sick, according to records.
The worker was last on the WIPP site on Aug. 7, according to the statement.
Two other NWP staff members tested positive on August 26, according to records, both were symptomatic and were last in the WIPP on August 20.
On August 14, NWP reported its 16th COVID-19 case of a worker who was on site on August 2.
The previous day, NWP reported that four workers had tested positive, as well as a fifth regulatory environment service worker.
Two of these workers were quarantined due to possible exposure and were last in the WIPP on 2 August, while the other 3 were between 4 and 6 August.
In the same week, four other NWP staff members tested positive, 3 were quarantined before the effects of the control and finally on July 30.
Fourth place quarantined after getting sick and last at the venue on August 6.
The 3rd case of SOP reported on August 3, the time on July 21 and the first of June.
Previously, a CAST Specialty Trucking employee working for WIPP at the Carlsbad truck terminal reported a positive verification result on July 8, but had no normal contact with other WIPP employees.
In May, WIPP Constructors Inc.de Granite Construction subcontractors reported that a worker was inflamed with COVID-19, and the first positive WIPP-related case was reported in April through a Carlsbad Technical Assistance (CTAC) North Wind Portage worker.
SoutheastErn New Mexico continues with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eddy County, Lea County, and Chaves County in southeastern New Mexico were among the state criteria of the five-state assembly to reduce the spread on Friday.required for county schools to open schools in person.
WIPP is near the edge of Eddy-Lea County, with Chaves neighboring Eddy County to the north.
On Friday, State Fitness announced 96 new instances in New Mexico with 3 new deaths.
Eddy and Lea counties each had 8 new cases, the state of which led their most populous county, Bernalillo, with 16.
Chaves for the time being linked the construction of cases with Doña Ana to thirteen new cases.
A woguy about 60 years old from Bernalillo reported that he had died of the virus, along with a man in his 60s in Chaves County and a woguy of about 50 years in Roosevelt County.
On Friday 13,412 patients designated as cured.
Adrian Hedden can be contacted at 575-628-5516, [email protected] or @AdrianHedden on Twitter.