"The employee has tested negative for #COVID19 Coworkers that person was in contact with on site show no symptoms. Enhanced cleaning will continue," stated the release sent Wednesday.
Here is the full statement:
An employee of Bayer in St. Louis is being tested for the coronavirus and the Creve Coeur campus is being closed "until further notice."
The U.S. headquarters for the international pharmaceutical company released a statement on Monday regarding the possible exposure of a Bayer employee to the coronavirus.
The spokeswoman says the campus is closing and "additional cleaning measures in common areas, and, as a proactive measure out of an abundance of caution."
If confirmed, it would be the region's second case.
Here is the full statement from Bayer:
Bayer announced it will also close the campus of its subsidiary, The Climate Corporation, located at City Place 4, which is also in Creve Coeur as well as its Whippany and Morristown, New Jersey sites until further notice.
An email was sent to all employees at the Creve Coeur location Sunday night.
St. Louis County Executive Sam Page will hold a 5 p.m. press conference to give an update on the health situation.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker will hold a 3:30 p.m. press conference from Chicago with city and county officials to give a COVID-19 update.
First confirmed coronavirus case in St. Louis County
Two Catholic schools in suburban St. Louis have temporarily closed and some students at a third school have been told to stay home after the father of the first person in Missouri to become ill with the coronavirus attended a dance with another child.
St. Louis County woman tested positive for coronavirus after returning home from a study-abroad trip in Italy.
Page said at a news conference Sunday that the patient’s family was told on Thursday to self quarantine at their home in Ladue but didn’t follow health department instructions.
Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School in Frontenac said in a message to parents that the father and sister of the infected patient attended the father-daughter dance Saturday night at the Ritz-Carlton in Clayton. They also apparently attended a pre-dance gathering at the house of a Villa student.
Page said health officials have told the man that “that he must remain in his home or they will issue a formal quarantine that will require him and the rest of his family to stay in their home by the force of law.”