A deputy at the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office has tested positive for coronavirus, a sheriff’s official confirmed Saturday.
In a text message, Assistant Sheriff Matt Schuler said a deputy at the West County Detention Facility in Richmond tested positive for COVID-19. No other information on the positive test, the deputy’s condition or the repercussions at the jail after the diagnosis were available.
Schuler oversees the jails in the county.
Health officials on Friday evening said 151 people in the county have tested positive for the coronavirus, 105 of them since March 20.
They also announced the county’s second death from coronavirus. Officials have not publicly released any information about the person who died.
It is unclear whether the deputy is among the reported positive cases at this point because health officials have said their policy is not to release any information on the patients. They declined to comment when reached Saturday.
Officials did say last week that the first person to die in the county was between 70 and 80 years old with underlying health conditions and had recently traveled from Europe to the United States.
