Managers at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state received confirmation of six positive COVID-19 tests among its workers over the weekend.
There were two positive cases reported at Hanford Friday evening and four more on Sunday, according to advisories, posted on a DOE operations website for Hanford run by a contractor.
There have been roughly 650 confirmed positive cases among the roughly 11,000 workers at the former plutonium production complex, based on public statements by DOE’s site manager Brian Vance and updates to the website.
About 100 workers at the Hanford Site who are also medical personnel or first responders have received both shots of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, a DOE spokesperson said last week.
As of last Thursday, there were 335 active COVID-19 cases within the DOE’s Office of Environmental Management cleanup complex, a spokesperson for the office has said. It marked the second straight week that its weekly active cases have been less than 400.
Since the pandemic began in the United States in early 2020, there have been about 27 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 463,000 deaths as a result, according to a public database run by the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus center.
