A staff member at the Floyd County Jail has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a post Wednesday night on the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office’s page on Facebook. The staff member was asymptomatic and was sent home upon notification.
Floyd County Sheriff Tim Burkhalter indicated, “We are following our policies and procedures to include, but not limited to: observation of staff and inmates that were exposed to the employee today, decontamination of all areas that the employee came into contact with, and we are following county policy before the employee will be allowed to return to work.”
Certain jail operations were temporarily suspended throughout the evening; normal operations are expected to resume today.