Oakland Airport Worker Tests Positive For Coronavirus

OAKLAND, CA — A person who works at Oakland International Airport tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, airport officials said Wednesday.

The person is a gate agent who last worked Sunday in Terminal 2 at gates 23, 25, 26 and 27 that day. The individual is not an employee of the airport or the Port of Oakland, which owns and operates the airport.

Port officials said the worker used the men's restroom in the baggage claim area of Terminal 2 and since then the restroom has been disinfected and cleaned. Gates 23, 25, 26 and 27 and the restroom were closed Tuesday night for disinfecting and cleaning.

Podiums and counters at those gates were cleaned and disinfected as were places commonly touched including jetways, doors, chairs and armrests.

Airport workers and others who work at the airport were told of the infection.

Elsewhere in the Bay Area, Transportation Security Administration employees at Mineta San Jose International Airport have also tested positive for the virus.

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