KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City, Missouri, Health Department announced Monday that nine of its employees are in quarantine due to exposure to two COVID-19 positive workers.
According to a press release, the two employees who tested positive contracted the virus outside the health department.
Since they were unaware of the exposure and did not show any symptoms, the two workers returned to work, passing temperature and symptom screenings.
However, one the two employees were made of aware of their possible exposure, they quarantined themselves and took a test, which later came back positive.
Their nine co-workers were in close contact, which prompted the expanded quarantine.
Due to the number of employees in quarantine, the health department is closing its birth and death records, and medical records offices through Monday, Oct. 19. Additionally, the immunization and sexual health clinics will take fewer appointments.
Other services will be routed to the state health department or other area county health departments.
“As other businesses and organizations have discovered, when employees go into quarantine, it restricts what services they can provide their customers. We are facing that now,” Tiffany Wilkinson, division manager for Communicable Disease Prevention and Public Health Preparedness, said in a release.
