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Hadley BarndollarView CommentsKITTERY, Maine — A cluster of 18 coronavirus cases identified at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has prompted state officials to open an outbreak investigation related to the workplace.Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Nirav Shah said all 18 cases have been lab-confirmed, with workers coming from three different states.Thirteen of the workers live in Maine, four live in New Hampshire, and one lives in Massachusetts, Shah said.Contact tracers are looking into the shipyard workers’ links to Sanford, Maine, where state officials are already managing several active outbreak investigations. A group of seven workers who tested positive were known to caravan from Sanford to the shipyard for work, Shah said.Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has stayed operating since the start of the pandemic, after being deemed essential to national security by the Trump administration. In the spring, it worked to move a majority of workers off-base through remote and tele-work options, as well as various forms of administrative leave.In April, a civilian employee assigned to Submarine Maintenance Engineering, Planning and Procurement Activity at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard died as a result of coronavirus complicationsThe shipyard in June began its return to a full strength workforce on Seavey Island, bringing back employees in a phased approach.SEACOAST CORONAVIRUS NEWS IS FREE:This content is being provided for free as a public service to our readers. to stay informed. Please support local journalism by or by View Comments

Hadley BarndollarView CommentsKITTERY, Maine — A cluster of 18 coronavirus cases identified at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has prompted state officials to open an outbreak investigation related to the workplace.Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Nirav Shah said all 18 cases have been lab-confirmed, with workers coming from three different states.Thirteen of the workers live in Maine, four live in New Hampshire, and one lives in Massachusetts, Shah said.Contact tracers are looking into the shipyard workers’ links to Sanford, Maine, where state officials are already...

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