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A second Ciena employee in Ottawa has tested positive for COVID-19 and the shutdown of the company’s Kanata campus has been extended until March 30.

Employees of the technology firm were sent emails over the weekend with the news, Nicole Anderson, Ciena’s vice-president of corporate communications, confirmed Monday morning.

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Ottawa’s first resident infected with the novel coronavirus was a male Ciena employee in his 40s who had returned from a vacation in Austria. He travelled with two co-workers and one of those is the second positive case.

The first employee came to work for one day on March 3, but has been in self-isolation since. The second infected employee was at work until March 9, the email said.

Ciena said last week that the campus would be shut down until March 17. That has now been extended until March 30.

Ciena makes fibre-optic communications equipment and opened its 425,000-square-foot campus in Kanata in 2017. The roughly 1,500 employees have been asked to work remotely until the campus, near the corner of March Road and Terry Fox Drive, is able to reopen.