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Posted by: Kate Prince on Jun 2, 2020

Three Rutherford County Jail employees and 21 inmates have tested positive for COVID-19, triple the number reported last week, the Daily News Journal reports. Spokeswoman for the jail, Lisa Marchesoni, had reported on May 20 that a jail kitchen contract worker and an inmate who worked in the kitchen had tested positive for the virus. In this week’s report, Marchesoni said the virus “spread from the same source.” All 679 inmates at the Rutherford County Jail have been tested and no female inmates have tested positive. The inmates are being quarantined away from other inmates and new detainees are screened by medical staff before they are booked and quarantined for 14 days.