An employee working in Portland’s tallest building, the Wells Fargo Center, has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to an email from the building management sent to its commercial tenants.

“We would like to assure you the employee of the tenant is no longer at the building. Additionally, the tenant engaged a certified emergency services contractor and they completed a complete broad-spectrum disinfection of their entire floor,” management firm Lincoln Property Company wrote in an email to Wells Fargo Center tenants Friday.

The email obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive did not identify the commercial tenant other than to say it occupies a full floor of the building.

Lincoln Property Group, which manages the building, declined comment when reached by phone Friday and immediately hung up. A subsequent call seeking comment on the email to tenants produced the same result.

It’s not clear if the person who tested positive is among the 30 Oregon cases already identified by health officials. Thus far Oregon has had no deaths from COVID 19, the disease associated with the coronavirus.

The property management firm’s email said the Wells Fargo Center’s custodial personnel are using a disinfectant “on all hard surfaces in the high traffic areas of the building such as within bathrooms, lobby and reception areas, elevators (including Parking Garage shuttles), kitchens, and other general utility rooms used by large numbers of people.”

The law firm Davis Wright Tremaine closed its Portland office in that building after learning about the positive test, managing partner Jeff Gray wrote in an announcement Friday. He said the person who tested positive is not a Davis Wright Tremaine employee.

The 40-story Wells Fargo Center building is Portland’s tallest, 10 feet taller than the U.S. Bancorp Tower (Big Pink) at the north end of downtown.

Also on Friday, Davis Wright Tremaine said an executive legal assistant working at the firm’s Bellevue office has died “unexpectedly” after leaving the office Tuesday with flu-like symptoms. The firm said the 60-year-old woman was found dead at her home Thursday.

The firm said it doesn’t know the cause of her death but has closed its Bellevue and Seattle offices indefinitely and asked its Bellevue employees to self-quarantine.

This article has been updated with additional information.

-- Mike Rogoway | mrogoway@oregonian.com | twitter: @rogoway | 503-294-7699

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