More than 500 State Department employees have objected to being sent back to work in D.C. offices after an employee who works near Sec. Pompeo's office tested positive for the coronavirus.
The employee was in the office as recently as Tuesday, and an outside company disinfected the area after the case was discovered, the email shows. Several other staff members in Washington also tested positive this week, including some who work in a large State Department annex across the street from the headquarters.
for wearing them, tested positive for COVID-19 hours before he had been set to join President Donald Trump on Air Force One, leading House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to impose a mask mandate on the floor of the House. "Care facilities and caregivers are not widely available and employees do not feel safe returning to the office," the employees write."The viral prevalence, and thus risk of infection, is far higher than when the Department sent everyone home in March."
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