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An employee at Safeway tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, Oct. 5, and is now quarantining, according to Safeway public relations and several staff at Safeway.

A city employee experienced mild cold-like symptoms last week that turned out to be – COVID-19.

Those cases are in addition to five others reported in the 97386 ZIP code area in the last week, which represents a more than 20 percent increase in the total cases reported in Sweet Home.

The COVID-positive Safeway employee typically works in the Starbucks department, and her last shift was Sept. 29.

Safeway Spokesperson Andrew W...