PRH employees test positive for COVID-19

Staff in close contact with employees have been tested

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BENJAMIN MICHAELIS | DAILY EVERGREEN FILE

The employees who tested positive will get tested again in three days.

CHERYL AARNIO, Evergreen reporter

Two Pullman Regional Hospital employees tested positive for COVID-19.

The employees work in the same department and are quarantining, according to a press release from PRH. 

Contract tracing has been implemented. Staff have been tested if they have been in close contact with those two employees, according to the release.

The employees will be tested again for COVID-19 in three days because of guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.