{"id":61637,"date":"2020-07-03T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/empire-employee-tests-positive-for-covid-19-has-been-self-isolating\/"},"modified":"2020-07-03T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T14:17:00","slug":"empire-employee-tests-positive-for-covid-19-has-been-self-isolating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/empire-employee-tests-positive-for-covid-19-has-been-self-isolating\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire employee tests positive for COVID-19, has been self-isolating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ins><strong>By the Juneau Empire<\/strong> <\/ins><\/p>\n<p>A Juneau Empire employee, who recently returned from a personal trip outside the City and Borough of Juneau, learned Thursday evening that they have tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The reporter, whose symptoms are mild, will continue to self-isolate at home and is working with public health officials to investigate how they contracted the illness.<\/p>\n<p>This person has not been in the Empire offices since early last week &mdash; before their Thursday through Sunday trip &mdash; and has been self-isolating since being tested Monday for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters have been working from home since early March, and this person will not return to the offices until well after they test negative for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The Empire&rsquo;s top priority remains the health and safety of employees, and it also has a responsibility to support the community, those who are vulnerable and the health care providers who are on the front lines of this pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The Empire continues to follow all state and federal guidelines and will continue to monitor the situation closely while working with public health officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This person has not been in the Empire offices since early last week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":61638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[703,75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-61637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61637"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=61637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}