Update 4/27

Floyd County Health Department officials and management from the Prestonsburg Food City confirm a Food City employee has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

The patient is asymptomatic and is self-isolating at home.

If you believe that you had 30 minutes or more of direct contact closer than 6 feet with anyone at the deli on Saturday April 25th, you should self-monitor for signs or symptoms of the virus.

Risk to anyone else is believed to be minimal.

Food City management said this employee only worked for five hours on Saturday and they have completed a deep level cleaning and sanitation process as recommended by the CDC.

Update

Prestonsburg Mayor Les Stapleton announced there are four new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Floyd County.

Three City of Prestonsburg employees have tested positive for the virus. One is a police officer, one is a firefighter and one is a person in administration.

Stapleton said they are all asymptomatic, and warned that this is an "invisible enemy." He said the city takes several precautions to prevent the spread of the virus including taking employees' temperatures multiple times a day, reiterating how contagious the virus can be.

"We have limited our contact to the public as much as we can, and we still had two first responders come back with positive tests," Mayor Stapleton said.

Stapleton went on to say that they are disinfecting city hall and taking extra precautions to prevent the spread of the virus.

"Simply put it's just locking down each department. Fire department nobody goes in the fire department including myself except for the fire department personnel who is on shift. That's it no one else," said Stapleton.

Stapleton did say all the firefighters are on set shifts to limit contact, so the shift the firefighter was on are now all quarantined. They will get tested later this week.

"We suspected it could happen, so we are prepared," Stapleton said.

Floyd County now has 10 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus. According to health department officials, two of those patients have recovered and the rest are in home isolation.

Original Story

Floyd County officials are giving an update on COVID-19 cases in the county.

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