CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Dismas Charities Inc. on Mestina St. is the halfway house where staff members and residents ended up testing positive for COVID-19.
The 19 people who tested positive will be in quarantine until they are cleared by health officials.
The others who live there were moved to other facilities. The remaining folks will have to stay inside the home until the virus has passed.
Some of the people who live there work at the STX Beef company in Annaville. Officials say they may never be able to make a connection on whether those folks caused the outbreak at the meat plant.
"We may never know that to be honest with you because the issue is we have community acquired transmission as well and so when you have community-acquired transmission and people go anywhere other than work it could have come from the environment," Nueces County Health Director Annette Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez adds that all the residents inside that halfway house are having to wear a mask at all times.
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