KIRKLAND, Wash. The Lake Washington Institute of Technology will be closed for the rest of the week after a faculty member tested positive for novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n
The college reopened Wednesday morning after being closed for two days for sanitization after a group of students and faculty visited the Life Care Center in Kirkland. The nursing facility has seen an outbreak of COVID-19 cases, and eight of the ten deaths in Washington state are linked to the facility, officials said.<\/p>\n
A statement issued Wednesday evening by LW Tech President Dr. Amy Morrison says the campus was closed again as of 5:30 p.m. and it will remain closed through the weekend.<\/p>\n
We made this decision swiftly, to continue disinfecting the college while no students, faculty and staff were on campus, and to provide us time to get a clear sense of who could have been exposed, Morrison said.<\/p>\n
Morrison says that the faculty member, as well as 21 other students, faculty and staff, have been self-quarantined after the recent visit to Life Care.<\/p>\n
She said a student who was also tested is negative for COVID-19 and that those quarantined are reporting to us that they are all doing well.<\/p>\n
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