Update June 18, 2020

We have received 63% of the employee results from this week's testing and there are currently no new confirmed positive employee cases.  We have not yet received the resident results.  All four previous positive confirmed resident cases have been resolved so there are currently no active resident cases. An update will be provided when we receive the remaining employee and resident test results that were completed on Tuesday.
The PA Department of Health is showing 81,236 total cases while Lancaster County is showing 3867 total cases today.

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