The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has 180 confirmed active cases of COVID-19 this week, down from 232 last week, and 296 two weeks ago, according to data a spokesperson provided Thursday.
At the Savannah River Site in South Carolina there are 67 employees currently quarantined with COVID-19, according to a website run by a DOE contractor for the facility near the Georgia line. The weekly total is down from 93 the prior week and 134 two weeks ago.
There are seven active cases of the virus among workers for the cleanup contractor at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio, Fluor-BWXT, according to data obtained by Weapons Complex Monitor. As of Feb. 24, there have been 171 total cases of COVID-19 for the contractor since the pandemic began.
In each of the four counties that surround the Portsmouth Site, more than 5% of the population has now been fully vaccinated. The number exceeds 8% in Scioto County, according to site data. In addition, 24 Portsmouth employees have received both doses. A Portsmouth source believes virtually all vaccinated there so far are either emergency responders or guards.
Hanford reported four new confirmed cases on Monday, according to a DOE contractor website posting for the site. The total at Hanford is now roughly 665 confirmed positive cases among the roughly 11,000 workers at the former plutonium complex. That’s based on statements from DOE as well as notices posted online.
There were two new positive cases of COVID-19 reported among workers at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant outside Carlsbad, N.M., between Feb. 18 and Feb. 24, according to a Facebook post Friday morning by the prime contractor for the transuranic waste site. The numbers at the transuranic waste site have been in the low single digits in recent weeks.
As of Friday, about 14% of the U.S. population has received at least one shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, National Public Radio reported Friday morning.
Nationally, there have been 28.4 million cases of coronavirus infections and nearly 509,000 deaths since the United States first reported cases during the pandemic in early 2020, according to an online tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University.
