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JUNE 18, 2021 03:44 PM,
UPDATED 1 HOUR 22 MINUTES AGO
BY JESSICA DE LEON and RYAN CALLIHAN
A COVID-19 outbreak that killed two IT staffers in Manatee County government and hospitalized three others has forced the shutdown of the county’s administrative building in downtown Bradenton.
At 2:30 p.m., the county announced on Facebook that it was immediately shutting down the building to the public and sending employees home. Florida Department of Health Manatee County epidemiologists were working on contract tracing.
... On Monday, one of four IT staffers who had been hospitalized with COVID-19 died, according to Hopes. A fifth IT staffer who went to the doctor on Wednesday, died at home Thursday from COVID-19.
The only staffer in the department who didn’t contract the coronavirus was vaccinated.
UPDATED 1 HOUR 22 MINUTES AGO
BY JESSICA DE LEON and RYAN CALLIHAN
A COVID-19 outbreak that killed two IT staffers in Manatee County government and hospitalized three others has forced the shutdown of the county’s administrative building in downtown Bradenton.
At 2:30 p.m., the county announced on Facebook that it was immediately shutting down the building to the public and sending employees home. Florida Department of Health Manatee County epidemiologists were working on contract tracing.
... On Monday, one of four IT staffers who had been hospitalized with COVID-19 died, according to Hopes. A fifth IT staffer who went to the doctor on Wednesday, died at home Thursday from COVID-19.
The only staffer in the department who didn’t contract the coronavirus was vaccinated.
