The city of Clinton issued the following statement.
Clinton City Hall is closed until Monday afternoon, December 14, 2020 at 3 P.M. after an employee tested positive for the Coronavirus on Monday around noon.
The affected employee had not been in the office since Friday, but out of an abundance of caution, City Hall has been deep cleaned and staff that work in close proximity will Quarantine per City policy.
City Hall staff that were not in contact with the affected case will still report to work following the deep cleaning.
All other City offices are open for regular business. Individuals visiting City offices will be required to have their temperature taken and wear a mask prior to entering a City building to conduct business.
For the safety of our staff and residents, City officials request that you call 601-924-5474 prior to visiting City Offices to allow our staff to resolve your need remotely.
Employees in contact with the affected employee will be tested for the Coronavirus and will be quarantining per City policy for 14 days.
City Hall employees sent to quarantine, will be working remotely. Beginning in March, City officials implemented a plan to allow quarantining employees to work remotely. Computers and phones have been set up for each employee to answer their desk phones and perform their work from laptops/tablets equipped with VPN’s.
For more information about the City of Clinton’s COVID-19 operations, please visit
www.ClintonMS.org/COVID19.
8 comments:
Clinton sure loves them some worthless press releases
Out of curiosity, what is the proper way to "deep clean" an office after a COVID scare? Is it even necessary? One of the many frustrations is that our knowledge of how to handle COVID hasn't grown very much since patient zero. We still are acting like it's the first case and we're throwing everything but the kitchen sink at this thing.
@ 6:18 I agree 100%. What constitutes a “deep clean”? My guess is that it means a can of Lysol was used when normally they use that great value stuff from Walmart.
You guys must no watch enough NCIC New Orleans.
There are no studies that show the virus lives on surfaces. Someone's uncle with a cleaning business is making considerable coin.
This is BS. They just wanted to start a long Christmas vacation.
There is no need to "deep clean" an entire building. With the number of low-symptom or completely asymptomatic cases you have to assume there have been a number of contagious people in the area already. You need to sanitize the common areas each day just as a matter of policy. If a person does test positive you may need to go over the frequently touched surfaces in their workspace (phone, keyboard, doorknob, desktop, cabinet handles, etc.) with disinfectant, but closing the entire operations goes way too far.
A little common sense would help us get through this without giving the COVID-deniers more ammunition to use in their tin-foil hat arguments.
"There are no studies that show the virus lives on surfaces. Someone's uncle with a cleaning business is making considerable coin." Like I've said, There's Gold in them thar hills. Covid is a money maker.
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