MANHATTAN, Kan. — Construction has resumed at the national biosecurity lab in Manhattan after a brief shutdown because a worker tested positive for COVID-19.
Officials stopped the work Tuesday to clean potentially contaminated areas where the worker might have been. Work resumed on Wednesday.
Project officials did not provide the ill worker’s gender, age or county of residence. Workers at the site are not being routinely tested for COVID-19 but they are required to wear face coverings, follow social distancing and answer health screening questions when they arrive at work.
