Nine Neptune Beach Police Department officers are being quarantined Thursday after two officers tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the police department.
The officers are all apart of the same squad and they work together, the police department said. The two officers who tested positive will be quarantined for 14 days. They will need to take another test with negative results before returning to work.
The other seven officers in the squad are being quarantined for 10 days as a precaution, in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.
On Monday, the department learned about the first officer's positive results leading to the rest of the squad being tested. The second officer's results came back positive and the department was made aware on Tuesday.
The police department cleaned the area after learning this information, they said. This is the third time the department has been cleaned since the pandemic started. according to the police department.
The nine officers being quarantined is not impacting the departments services to the community.
