Rock Hill Food Lion employee has coronavirus, marking 14th at chain in York, Lancaster
Another worker at a Food Lion store in Rock Hill has tested positive for coronavirus, company officials said.
The employee works at the Heckle Boulevard store in southern Rock Hill, said Matt Harakal, spokesperson for the Salisbury, N.C.-based grocery store chain.
The employee last worked on Aug. 3 and will not return to work until cleared by health personnel, Harakal said in a written statement.
The same Heckle Boulevard store had three employees test positive in July, the company told The Herald..
Food Lion cleaned the Rock Hill store after the Aug. 3 positive test as guided by the local, state and national health authorities, including the Centers for Disease Control, company officials said.
A total of 14 Food Lion employees in York and Lancaster counties have now tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began in March, according to the company.
In June, four Food Lion employees at stores in Lake Wylie, Rock Hill and Lancaster tested positive for the virus, company officials said. Then in July, nine employees at six stores in York County in Rock Hill, Fort Mill, and Clover tested positive, according to the company.
The chain operates 14 stores in York, Chester and Lancaster counties in South Carolina.
One employee at Harris Teeter in Rock Hill tested positive in July, company officials said in a statement to The Herald.
Five Publix grocery store employees in Rock Hill and Fort Mill and Indian Land have tested positive through July, Publix officials said in a statement to The Herald on Aug. 7.
As of Monday morning, more than 3,700 people in York County have tested positive for COVID-19 since March, according to the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.
This story was originally published August 17, 2020 at 12:09 PM.
