The number of weekly confirmed cases of COVID-19 at the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management continued to decline as the winter Omicron wave receded across the country, the nuclear cleanup office said.
For the seven-day period ended March 10 there were 43 confirmed active cases of COVID-19, down by 22 from the 65 for the prior week, an Environmental Management spokesperson said by email late Friday.
It was only in early February that the nuclear cleanup complex hit its high of 775 weekly confirmed cases.
So far during the pandemic more than 100 DOE and federal contractor employees at Environmental Management worksites died as a result of COVID-19, Greg Sosson, Environmental Management’s deputy assistant secretary for safety, security and quality assurance, told the Waste Management Symposia in Phoenix last week.
Nationally, more than 967,000 people have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic started to spread in the United States in early 2020, according to figures compiled by the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Center.
