GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Surry County Sheriff's Office said it's taking steps to contain the spread of COVID-19 after an inmate tested positive.
Sheriff Steve C. Hiatt said the office found out on Tuesday about the positive case at Surry County Detention Center.
He said the facility is being cleaned and they're continually monitoring all other inmates for symptoms of coronavirus.
The audit of the Greensboro Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) was for the fiscal year 2019, which was between October 1 of that year to March 31, 2020. The report stated that the Postal Service's 2.1 million late trips nationwide were due to contractor failure. It ranked Greensboro's processing plant third-highest in the number of late trips.
"From October 1, 2019, to March 31, 2020, the Greensboro P&DC had the third-highest number (10,921) of originating late trips due to contractor failure for P&DCs. The average time a trip was late was 42 minutes. There were 34 contractors with originating late trips due to contractor failure at the Greensboro P&DC. Three contractors accounted for 70 percent of the failures," the report read.
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