Eight Culver City Police Employees Test Positive For COVID-19 Since Last Week

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Eight Culver City Police Employees Test Positive For COVID-19 Since Last Week

by Contributing Editor

Eight Culver City Police Department employees have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past couple of weeks, the department announced Thursday.

Two officers started to experience flu-like symptoms, including losing their sense of taste and smell, at some point last week, according to Sgt. Andrew Bellante of the Culver City Police Department.

The two were sent home to quarantine, and the following day their COVID-19 tests confirmed they both had the coronavirus, he said.

Employees who had “prolonged direct contact” with the officers were also tested and sent home to quarantine, and three of them tested positive, Bellante said.

In response, all police department employees were tested for the virus and non-patrol employees were sent home to work remotely, according to Bellante.

The testing showed that an additional officer and two other employees contracted the virus, bringing the department’s total to eight, Bellante said.

The department is waiting for the results of 11 more tests, and 124 tests have come back as negative.

Non-patrol staff will either be working from home or working modified staggered schedules until further notice to minimize contact between employees, according to Bellante.

Information about the total number of CCPD employees to test positive for COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic was not immediately available.

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