32 LA County Sheriff's Employees Test Positive For Coronavirus

LOS ANGELES, CA — The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reported Wednesday that 32 employees have tested positive for COVID-19, along with 13 jail inmates.

According to statistics released Wednesday morning, 432 employees have been quarantined, and 250 have returned to work.

In the jail system, 603 inmates have been quarantined and 35 have been isolated.

According to the sheriff's department, "isolation" is defined as "individuals who have a temperature of 100.4 or higher and are exhibiting symptoms of an upper respiratory infection."

"Quarantine" is defined as "individuals who have had close contact of 10 minutes or more with a person currently under observation."

More information is available on the sheriff's department's coronavirus updates page, https://lasd.org/covid19updates.

—City News Service

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