A Bellevue senior housing community is on lockdown to keep their residents safe from the coronavirus.
Both Richmont Terrace and Richmont Village, which are on the same campus, are under quarantine after one of their employees of their employees attended the same event at the Fremont YMCA as a 36 year old woman who tested positive for coronavirus.
Officials at Richmont closed the doors when they discovered an employee might be at risk. People won’t be able to visit and people who live here won’t be able to leave the building for another seven days.
“We’re just going about our daily business they bring our meals to us and we do the regular activities that we do in our room, we can walk in the hallways,” Joan Nicholson told 6 News.
Elderly and people with serious chronic medical conditions are at a higher risk when it comes to dealing with the virus so officials at the Richmont senior living centers say that’s why they’re not taking any chances.
“Of course you will have the few that think oh this is overkill but I tell you the minute you don’t do it then you’ll hear about that so we’re being proactive really wanting to protect our people their vulnerable,” Jennifer Prymak with Richmont Senior Living Center told 6 News.
As the virus spreads throughout the United States, Bellevue officials say shutting down both facilities seemed like the best way to keep their people safe.
“We’re just being very cautious. We don’t want to scare anybody or frighten anybody we just want to educate everybody on how can we stay safe,” Prymak says.
Officials tell 6 News no one in their facilities has tested positive for the virus and the staff member in question has shown no signs of symptoms so far. If nothing changes the quarantine will end on Saturday.