Algoma Steel has informed its employees that a worker for a supplier of the local steelmaker has tested positive for COVID-19 this past weekend.
A message from Algoma President Michael McQuade was sent to employees on Wednesday confirming the individual travelled to the Sault from another province and was last at the plant on March 12th.
McQuade adds that Algoma Public Health has advised the likelihood of transmission is low, however, as a precaution they have notified those employees who were in contact with the individual and asked them to stay home and self monitor for the remainder of the 14 day window.
McQuade says they also learned this week that one of their employees who has been off work for more than a week has been tested for COVID-19 and as a precautionary measure.
Algoma has asked those employees and a small number of contractor personal who had close contact with that individual not to come to work pending the outcome of the test results.