The construction workers were building a residential care facility for veterans which was expected to open in 2021.
Nineteen newly confirmed coronavirus cases in Maine have been linked to a worksite building Maine Veterans' Homes residential care facility in Augusta, according to Nirav D. Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention .
The Maine CDC is now investigating, and the workers from the site are under quarantine. The work site is run by Cianbro, a northeast regional construction company that partnered on the project with VJS Construction, a Wisconsin-based construction company. In a Friday afternoon news conference, Shah said he wasn't sure where on-site workers contracted the virus, how the virus might have spread amongst construction workers nor whether out-of-state contract workers might've imported the virus, according to the"It may not have been the worksite that was the place of transmission, but it could have been the fact that [the workers] were rooming with one another, or socializing with one another," Shah said on Friday.
The worksite is a $91 million, 138-bed facility that will replace the Maine Veterans' Homes 150-bed nursing home in Augusta. The facility is expected to open in 2021. It's unclear what steps the construction companies might've taken to reduce workers' possible coronavirus exposure.A construction worker wearing a mask in Times Square during the COVID-19 pandemic on May 03, 2020 in New York City.
Shedlock mentioned that construction companies and general contractions have an obligation to protect their workers, whether these workers are represented by a union or not. Some worksites have installed hand sanitation stations and scheduled shifts so that laborers won't have to work too closely to one another.
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