Six Port Authority of Allegheny County employees have tested positive for covid-19 since last week’s update, bringing the total number of employee cases to 27, officials said Wednesday.

Fifteen of these employees have been cleared to return to work. Eleven are at home recovering and one remains hospitalized.

The six new cases include three bus operators, a service person at the East Liberty garage, a mechanic in the auto shop at South Hills Junction and an employee who works in the light-rail systems and power department at South Hills Junction.

The hospitalized employee is a bus operator who works out of the East Liberty garage and tested positive last Friday, a spokesman said. The employee last worked on July 6 and has been hospitalized since.

Once the employees reported that they were self-quarantining pending the results of their tests, management at their respective work locations ordered a deep cleaning and sanitization of the facilities, according to a Port Authority statement.

In cases where the employee had been back to their work location, Port Authority said it also contacted a third-party company to deep clean and sanitize those areas.

Contact tracing investigations were completed by the Port Authority’s System Safety Department for each of the employees, according to the statement.

Port Authority said it has begun or extended mandatory on-site temperature screenings at their work locations and reported the cases to the Allegheny County Health Department.

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