The USDA closed a wing on the second floor of the South building as a result of a diagnosis of COVID-19 in an employee. The office suite and rooms visited by the patient will be decontaminated and contacts will be screened for SARS-CoV-2.

Perhaps the Administration has identified an epidemiologic justification after the event, for moving USDA employees to locations outside DC. as was the case with relocating the ERS to Kansas City and the Bureau of Land Management to Grand Junction Co.