{"id":46344,"date":"2020-04-08T15:14:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T19:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=46344"},"modified":"2020-04-08T15:54:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T19:54:33","slug":"covid-19-and-lehigh-acres-walmart-5-employees-infected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2020\/04\/covid-19-and-lehigh-acres-walmart-5-employees-infected\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 and Lehigh Acres Walmart \u2013 5 employees infected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Lehigh Acres Gazette has learned that five employees from the Lehigh Acres Walmart are on personnel or on medical due to COVID 19.\u00a0 These five employees worked throughout the store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-red-color\">UPDATE: We have the names of five employees but due to HIPPA law, we can not release them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/covid19-1024x494-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/covid19-1024x494-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/covid19-1024x494-1-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/covid19-1024x494-1-768x371.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lehigh Acres Gazette contacted Walmart Corporate for comment. They will not confirm or deny the possible employees\u2019 infections. And told to us to contact the local health department for any information. <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.walmart.com\/here-for-you\">Walmart&#8217;s Response to COVID-19 &#8211; Walmart Corporate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/walmart-outdoor-sign-1500x1000-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/walmart-outdoor-sign-1500x1000-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/walmart-outdoor-sign-1500x1000-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/walmart-outdoor-sign-1500x1000-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/walmart-outdoor-sign-1500x1000.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently Walmart is facing a Wrongful Death Lawsuit from Coronavirus. The family of a 51-year-old Walmart associate who succumbed to the&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;has filed a wrongful death lawsuit over what is alleged to be&nbsp;unsafe working conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The individual,&nbsp;Wando Evans,&nbsp;worked in an Illinois-based Walmart for 15 years, and died on March 25 as a result of COVID-19. Four days later, another co-worker at the Evergreen Park store died from complications of the virus. Evans&#8217; estate alleges that the blame for his death lies with Walmart, in a wrongful death lawsuit filed Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of 3 pm 4\/8\/2020 Lehigh Acres has 70 cases COVID 19. Lee County 462 cases with 14 deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lehigh Acres Gazette has learned that five employees from the Lehigh Acres Walmart are on personnel or on medical due to COVID 19.\u00a0 These five employees worked throughout the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}