Costco confirms employee tested positive for COVID-19

The Central Point location recently notified employees of the positive test, as well as resulting precautions.

Develop, costco officials in central point confirmed the news with us earlier this morning.

In a memo sent to employees, management was informed that the person worked in the front end department.

They have not been at work since last monday.

The company says that they have been cooperating with the public health department, including contacting other employees who may have come into contact with them.

We have been digging into this story and we will have a full break down coming up later tonight at five and six.

You can also read the story on our website, k-d-r-v dot com.

Look at the total cases in our region as of today.

Eleven new cases were announced in jackson county over the weekend, and one new one today, bringing the total to 20.

Klamath county also announced two new cases over the weekend.

There are still no confirmed positive cases in curry and lake counties of the new cases, four of them are in josephine, and one is in jackson county.

Washington, marion, and multnomah continues to see a large increase in cases.

Washington now has a total of 140 confirmed.

There are now á606á total confirmed covid-19 cases in oregon.