A state employee working at the Hughes Justice Complex in Trenton, which houses both the New Jersey Supreme Court and the state Attorney General’s Office, has tested positive for coronavirus, NJ Advance Media has learned.

On Sunday, state authorities notified employees that one of their colleagues had tested positive for COVID-19 ″over the weekend."

It was among the first cases in New Jersey of state workers contracting the illness.

“The employee had no symptoms while in the office, but out of an abundance of caution, all areas where the employee had been in the building on Thursday were cleaned, including the first floor, the cafeteria area, the 4th, 5th and part of the 6th floors,” the email said, according to a copy obtained by NJ Advance Media.

A spokeswoman for Attorney General Gurbir Grewal confirmed the content of the email but declined to comment further.

The sick worker was identified in a second email obtained by the news organization as an employee of the Division of Criminal Justice, which oversees major criminal investigations and prosecutions across the state.

The first email assured workers at the justice complex that it was safe.

“The building has been cleared for use, and employees are expected to report for duty as in the regular course of business,” it said.

The news came after Gov. Phil Murphy ordered each government department to institute its own work-from-home plan by Wednesday and raised concerns among workers in the building on Monday that they could become unknowing vectors for the virus.

“We’ve all been told self-quarantine, ‘flatten the curve,’ yet we get this email saying somebody contracted COVID but they cleaned and we’re expected to be here,” said one employee of the Attorney General’s Office, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they feared retaliation for criticizing the department.

“It’s like a ghost town in here,” the person said, with rows of office doors usually left open to discuss pending cases and trade insight sealed shut.

“Everyone has their door closed,” the person said. “People are wearing masks.”

Two other people who regularly work in the complex said some employees were calling out sick even before the email, and expressed concern at how little they were being told about the situation.

NJ Advance Media staff writer Blake Nelson contributed to this report.

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