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Pair of Sandia Buildings Closed for Cleaning After COVID-19 Cases Confirmed

Tuesday, June 30th, 2020

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Pair of Sandia Buildings Closed for Cleaning After COVID-19 Cases Confirmed

The Sandia National Laboratories cleared out a couple buildings on its New Mexico campus last week after confirming positive cases of COVID-19 there, though one of the facilities reopened before the weekend was out. Sandia said Friday that both Building 836 and Building 867 had closed after a positive test was confirmed among the occupants of each. Following its usual procedure for rebooting work space used by someone with COVID-19, Sandia sanitized the closed buildings, cleaning floors and surfaces, and…

Congress

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Space

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Congress

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Pentagon

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