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One of Nashville’s most prominent skyscrapers, colloquially known as the “Batman Building” for its ear-like pointed towers, partially closed on Monday due to fears over coronavirus.

Flyers posted on the doors of the AT&T building said the building would be closed for a “thorough cleaning.” On Monday morning, cleaning staff and security guards could be seen in an otherwise empty lobby. No one in the lobby would provide comment.

Stephen Kulinski, managing director of CBRE Property Management, said the whole building was never fully closed on Monday, but that portions were closed so they could be cleaned with an anti-viral solution. People who worked in the building were still allowed to come inside, but some employers told their workers to stay home.

Kulinski said the building should resume normal operations on Tuesday, but some businesses may still tell their employees to stay home as a precaution.

Brian Todd, a spokesman for the Nashville Metro Health Department, said Monday the city had only one presumptive case of coronavirus, previously announced on Sunday, and stressed that city officials did not close the building.

The closure comes one day after the first case of coronavirus was detected in Nashville. City health officials announced Sunday that an adult woman with the virus was cooperating with a voluntary isolation at her home with mild symptoms. City and state health officials are identifying other people she may have had contact with and are still attempting to determine the origins of her infection.

Incoming city health director Dr. William Caldwell said the woman’s infection is not believed to be related to travel, but state epidemiologist Dr. John Dunn said officials did not believe the woman had contracted the virus in her community either.

"We are still looking for that information that might guide us ... Did this person acquire this infection in the community? Or because someone else came into the community? Or because they traveled?" Dunn said. "I think it is just too early to say right now."

Currently, Tennessee has three known cases of coronavirus: the woman in Nashville, a man in Williamson County and a person who is hospitalized in East Memphis.

Brett Kelman is the health care reporter for The Tennessean. He can be reached at 615-259-8287 or at brett.kelman@tennessean.com. Follow him on Twitter at @brettkelman.