Coronavirus

Two WAPA Employees on St. Croix Test Positive for Covid-19

In a memorandum to employees of the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority Wednesday afternoon, Executive Director Lawrence Kupfer confirmed that two employees in the St. Croix district have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, WAPA said Wednesday. The authority said that immediately upon notification of the positive results, its Human Resources Department and Incident Command team responded and began executing all necessary precautionary measures. “At this time, all employees known to have potentially been in direct contact with the infected employees or who have worked in close proximity to the employee’s workspaces have been notified, scheduled for preliminary testing, requested to quarantine, and asked to contact the Department of Health’s EPI Hotline as per our established COVID-19 protocols.  In addition, action has been taken to isolate and sanitize the affected workspaces,” Mr. Kupfer wrote. The two employees, one each from the electric and water systems, apparently cont...