Three Biogen employees who attended a meeting in Boston last week have tested positive for COVID-19, commonly known as the coronavirus, the company confirmed Thursday in a statement to NewsCenter 5.The company said the three individuals do not live in Massachusetts. Two of the meeting attendees live in the European Union and one of the employees lives outside of Massachusetts.The company said all three workers were home under the care of their healthcare provider.According to the company, after the meeting with Biogen employees in Massachusetts last week, a number of attendees reported varying degrees of flu-like symptoms. A total of approximately 175 people attended the meeting, a company spokesman said. "Some attendees have been confirmed with influenza and three attendees have tested positive for COVID-19 to date," Biogen said. "At the present time, these individuals are doing well, improving and under the care of their health care providers."The company said it has been in contact with public health officials since the first cases were reported. "In an abundance of caution, all meeting attendees, with or without flu-like symptoms, have been directed to work from home for two weeks," the company said. Biogen said it was also taking precautionary measures to mitigate the spread of illness, including restricting travel through the end of March. The news comes on the same day the Tennessee Department of Health announced that a man who has a confirmed case of coronavirus recently traveled in and out of Boston's Logan Airport.

Three Biogen employees who attended a meeting in Boston last week have tested positive for COVID-19, commonly known as the coronavirus, the company confirmed Thursday in a statement to NewsCenter 5.



The company said the three individuals do not live in Massachusetts. Two of the meeting attendees live in the European Union and one of the employees lives outside of Massachusetts.



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The company said all three workers were home under the care of their healthcare provider.

According to the company, after the meeting with Biogen employees in Massachusetts last week, a number of attendees reported varying degrees of flu-like symptoms.

A total of approximately 175 people attended the meeting, a company spokesman said.

"Some attendees have been confirmed with influenza and three attendees have tested positive for COVID-19 to date," Biogen said. "At the present time, these individuals are doing well, improving and under the care of their health care providers."

The company said it has been in contact with public health officials since the first cases were reported.

"In an abundance of caution, all meeting attendees, with or without flu-like symptoms, have been directed to work from home for two weeks," the company said.

Biogen said it was also taking precautionary measures to mitigate the spread of illness, including restricting travel through the end of March.

The news comes on the same day the Tennessee Department of Health announced that a man who has a confirmed case of coronavirus recently traveled in and out of Boston's Logan Airport.