Coronavirus cluster identified at Pierce County senior living facility

PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department identified a coronavirus outbreak at a Pierce County senior living facility after 34 infections were discovered.

Twenty-seven of the 41 residents and seven employees at Gibraltar Senior Living tested positive for the virus.

No deaths have been reported. The first case was identified April 9.

“Health Department disease investigators immediately contacted facility leadership to discuss monitoring staff and residents for illness, limiting visitors, supply and usage of personal protective equipment, and instructed that staff should wear a mask at all times,” said Nigel Turner, Director, Communicable Disease Control Division.

The health department instructed the facility to cancel group activities, stagger meal times and enforce social distancing.

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