(CNN) When Brandon Waltman went to visit his newborn baby girl in the neonatal intensive care unit of an Alabama hospital Monday night, he was told she had been placed in isolation.

tested positive for His daughter Emmarie Grace Waltman has been in the NICU of the University of South Alabama Women's Hospital for the past month. After a nurse recentlytested positive for Covid-19 , Waltman said, he was told that as a precaution Emmarie was taken to another room and put in isolation

After watching the news about the spread of the virus over the last few weeks, Waltman says he wasn't surprised.

"I felt like it was inevitable," he told CNN.

Gary Mans, an associate vice president for Marketing and Communications at USA Health, said in a statement that a staff member within the health system had tested positive, but declined to say in which department.

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