FORT WORTH (1080 KRLD) - Two inmates at the Tarrant County Jail test positive for COVID-19 over the weekend.
"They're both mild cases," says Jennifer Gabbert, a lieutenant with the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office. "At the onset of symptoms brought to our attention, they were quarantined last week."
It's unknown how the two men contracted the virus.
"There's so many unknowns with COVID-19, there's nothing definite on how they caught it," says Lt. Gabbert "(They) haven't been traveling prior to coming in the facility or anything like that that we know of, so it's really unknown."
Since the positive tests, the sheriff's office has ramped up preventative measures.
"(There are) additional temperature checks done of the employees (and) of any outside food vendors," Lt. Gabbert says.
Other inmates have also been tested, and those tests have come back negative.
"Other inmates that may have been around these inmates, they check to find out who those may be for we could make sure those inmates are quarantined to prevent any spread in case anybody else has contracted it," says Lt. Gabbert.
