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KCHD offers additional coronavirus safety recommendations for critical infrastructure businesses

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Kent County

  

The Kent County Health Department is issuing additional public health recommendations.

Under Governor Gretchen Whitmer's “Stay Home, Stay Safe” executive order, it exempts businesses considered critical service providers. The Kent County Health Department is asking they take additional measures protecting their critical workforce.

“They should be taking reasonable measures to space patrons and their employees at least six feet.”

That’s Kent County Health Department Director, Dr. Adam London.

“Please, think creatively. How can you space your employees and your customers to make sure that we’re not too close. Also want to encourage them to disinfect regularly all common touchpoints in their business. Whether it’s the handle on the gas pump. A handle on a shopping cart. Maybe the touchscreen on checkout devices. Anything in your business that people are commonly touching should be disinfected regularly.”

Dr. London also recommends business owners send sick employees home and anyone who’s been in contact with an individual testing positive for COVID-19 should home quarantine for 14 days since the date of last contact with the person taken ill.

I’m Patrick Center

Patrick joined WGVU Public Media in December, 2008 after eight years of investigative reporting at Grand Rapids' WOOD-TV8 and three years at WYTV News Channel 33 in Youngstown, Ohio. As News and Public Affairs Director, Patrick manages our daily radio news operation and public interest television programming. An award-winning reporter, Patrick has won multiple Michigan Associated Press Best Reporter/Anchor awards and is a three-time Academy of Television Arts & Sciences EMMY Award winner with 14 nominations.