Officials with the Floyd County Health Department took to their Facebook page yesterday evening to announce another positive case in their county.

The case is said to be a Double Kwik employee. The post reads:

Double Kwik has learned an employee at the Harold Double Kwik has tested positive for COVID-19.

The employee who tested positive is quarantined for the next 14 days as well as employees who have been in direct contact with this employee.

We would like to assure the public that we were prepared for this and immediately took steps in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state and local health department guidelines for responding to this scenario.

Employee and customer safety is our top priority. Per the Floyd County Health Department’s guidance, anyone who visited Harold Double Kwik between Monday, July 13 and Wednesday, July 15 may have been exposed and should self-monitor for symptoms. It is believed there is minimal risk of exposure if social distancing, masks and other measures were used by the public while there.

We will continue to take proactive steps in all of our locations in an effort to limit the risk of exposure for our employees and customers. We continue to enforce social distancing, limit number of people in stores and sanitize high touch areas hourly.

The addition of this case along with the four new cases reported yesterday brings Floyd County’s total number of cases to 52. 17 of those cases remain in isolation, one in the hospital, one dead, and 33 recovered.