{"id":22779,"date":"2020-09-08T15:43:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/regional\/employee-at-mcdonalds-on-rymal-road-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T19:58:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T19:58:12","slug":"employee-at-mcdonalds-on-rymal-road-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/hamilton\/employee-at-mcdonalds-on-rymal-road-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee at McDonald\u2019s on Rymal Road tests positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A worker at the McDonald\u2019s location on Rymal Road East has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespec.com\/news\/hamilton-region\/2020\/09\/06\/hamilton-mountain-mcdonalds-employee-reports-positive-covid-19-test.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tested positive for COVID-19<\/a>, according to a statement from the company.<\/p>\n<p>The employee, who works at the McDonald\u2019s location at the corner of Rymal Road East and Upper James, officially tested positive over the weekend on September 5th, prompting the location to temporarily close its doors for a third-party cleaning and sanitation procedure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HamOnt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#HamOnt<\/a> Mountain McDonald\u2019s employee has reported testing positive for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#COVID<\/a>-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XjrCQaEE8a\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/XjrCQaEE8a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hamilton Spectator (@TheSpec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSpec\/status\/1303326361919123461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The infected employee, who last worked at the location on August 31st from 7 pm to 12 am, is currently self-isolating; as are fellow employees who may have come into contact and been exposed.<\/p>\n<p>This particular McDonald\u2019s location was also the notable site of a reported COVID-19 case earlier this year that was later <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanicity.com\/hamilton\/city\/2020\/03\/the-covid-19-case-that-closed-the-mcdonalds-on-rymal-road-was-fake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found to be fabricated<\/a>, when an 18 year-old employee presented a forged doctor\u2019s note fraudulently stating that they were COVID-19 positive.<\/p>\n<p>The fake positive case prompted the location to shut down, send all employees home to self-isolate, and execute a deep cleaning of the facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A worker at the McDonald\u2019s location on Rymal Road East has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a statement from the company. The employee, who works at the McDonald\u2019s location at the corner...","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":22780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8065],"tags":[4999,5203,5307,19,432,20,3086,828,5239,3131,1155],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/mcdonalds.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28144,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22779\/revisions\/28144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}