REPORT: Multiple workers at facilities housing migrant kids in U.S. custody test positive for coronavirus

MARCH 24, 2020

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Three staff members at facilities that care for unaccompanied migrant children in U.S. government custody, as well as one foster parent, have now tested positive for the coronavirus, federal officials said Monday.

The three staff members work at two different facilities in New York that house migrant children in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, or ORR, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that is currently responsible for about 3,600 unaccompanied minors. The foster parent is in Washington state, one of the epicenters of the pandemic in the U.S.

The article goes on to state the following:

ORR’s medical team and the affected facilities are coordinating with local public health authorities on “appropriate quarantine measures” stemming from the new cases, agency officials said in a statement to CBS News. The agency said it is also notifying anyone that may have been exposed to the individuals.

The report states that 12 migrant children were tested for coronavirus. Five tests came back negative, and results of the others are still pending.

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