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Sandia Office Space Being Cleaned Up After Confirmed COVID-19 Case

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020

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Sandia Office Space Being Cleaned Up After Confirmed COVID-19 Case

Sandia National Laboratories was preparing Tuesday to reopen its MO285 office space after deep-cleaning the area after an employee there tested positive for COVID-19, the nuclear-weapons engineering hub said. Only one employee working at MO285 tested positive, the labs network wrote in a statement Monday, when it began the deep cleaning that typically allows work spaces to reopen within a day or two. Sandia can test its own employees for COVID-19 and will do so at employees' request. Anybody who…

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