A Pima County jail corrections officer and three other Sheriff’s Department employees have tested positive for the coronavirus.
There were no confirmed cases among Pima County jail inmates as of Wednesday.
The department has about 1,500 employees and about 1,300 inmates.
The corrections officer has been on unrelated leave since April 17, reducing the overall risk of infection to others, said Deputy James Allerton, a department spokesman.
Three of the employees who tested positive work in positions where they had little interaction with others, Allerton said, adding that those workers have been placed on leave.
The department is doing contact tracing to see where affected workers might have picked up the disease and who else they might have exposed to it, Allerton said.
He said the department is following all recommended protocols to limit the potential spread of the virus.
The department has stepped up cleaning of its facilities, installed hand-washing stations in the back of patrol cars and conducts temperature checks of anyone who enters.
Any employee who feels sick must stay home for two weeks.
Information on whether there are any confirmed cases within the Tucson Police Department was not immediately available.
COVID-19 was cited as the cause of death for one state prisoner in Tucson, the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office told The Associated Press.
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