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Local Amazon Worker, Sheriff's Deputy Test Positive For COVID-19

A worker at the Amazon facility in Groveport has tested positive for COVID-19. 

The company says it is taking steps to ensure the safety of other employees, and anyone who had close contact with the person will be asked to self-quarantine for 14 days and will be paid.]

A Franklin County deputy assigned to the Jackson Pike jail tested positive for COVID-19. The deputy is self-quarantined and was last at the facility on March 23. Officials say they have no reason to believe any of the one thousand jail inmates were exposed. Work stations are disinfected before and after each shift. 

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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