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Posted by: Kate Prince on Aug 10, 2020

Eleven children and eight staff members at the Davidson County Juvenile Detention Center have recovered after testing positive for the COVID-19 virus in June, the Tennessee Lookout reports. Kathy Sinback, administrator for the juvenile court, said several of the youth displayed mild symptoms, while others were asymptomatic. All new admissions are currently being placed in quarantine for two weeks before joining the general population at the facility, which currently houses 39 boys and girls. Gary Sallee, chief legal officer for the private company that manages the facility, told the Lookout in an email that the “statistics indicate that the numbers of positive cases within the facility fall far below the equivalent statistics for the population at large.”