The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management had 115 onsite cases of COVID-19 in the seven-days ended Thursday, unchanged from the week before, according to a spokesperson for the nuclear cleanup office.
That’s 21 more onsite cases than the 94 the Office of Environmental Management confirmed during the week ended June 2 and about five times the 23 weekly onsite cases recorded by the cleanup office nearly two months ago.
Earlier this year, an Environmental Management official said more than 100 people working on DOE nuclear cleanup projects died from COVID during the pandemic, which began in the United States in early 2020.
As of Tuesday, more than 1 million people in the U.S. had died from COVID-19 and there had been more than 86 million confirmed cases of the virus, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Center. The online tracker said roughly 67%, or about 222 million people nationally have been vaccinated.
The Office of Environmental Management has said more than 90% of its federal and contractor workers are vaccinated against the potentially deadly illness.
