Wawa, a super-convenience store chain with almost 900 sites along the East Coast, closed one of its 255 stores in New Jersey this month after a worker tested positive for the coronavirus virus, a store spokeswoman said Sunday.

The store at 511 Berlin-Cross Keys Road in Gloucester Township closed on March 19 and reopened on March 28. The action was taken after a worker tested positive for the virus. Their last day on the job was March 16. The store was the only one in the state reported closed because of the virus, an official said Sunday.

"It is our policy to immediately and proactively close stores for professional deep cleaning and disinfecting after being notified by an associate of a confirmed case of COVID-19,” Lori Bruce, a Wawa spokeswoman said Sunday. “We also work with local departments of health regarding notifications to any of our associates who may have had close contact with the impacted associate and immediately ask them to follow CDC-recommended guidelines to self-quarantine for the appropriate period of time.”

A Wawa on Little Gloucester Road in Clementon was also reported closed recently but Bruce said that was because of a lack of staff to operate it. At least three Wawa stores in Pennsylvania and one in Delaware have also recently been closed because of workers contracting the coronavirus, according to published reports.

Wawa voluntarily stopped allowing self-serve beverage options from all of its stores after officials in Camden County requested the practice, particularly with coffee, be stopped until the virus pandemic is over.

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Camden County officials this week praised Wawa as “a model” of compliance during the epidemic. The coronavirus has killed at least 140 statewide and infected at least 11,124.

Hours after New Jersey officials announced the largest one-day increase in deaths since the coronavirus pandemic began earlier this month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued a domestic travel advisory this weekend for New Jersey, New York and Connecticut.

New York has the most coronavirus cases in the country with more than 52,000. More than half of those — about 29,000 are in New York City. New Jersey is second nationally. Nationwide the pandemic has killed 2,191 and infected 124,686. Worldwide the total is 31,700 deaths and 678,720 infections.

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