The Maui News

Three Maui Police Department employees whose confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported last month have returned to work at the Wailuku Police Station, police said Tuesday.

The three, whose positive test results were reported by police Aug. 27 and 28, have “no signs, no symptoms” of the virus and are “feeling healthy,” said Maui police spokeswoman Lt. Audra Sellers.

All three work in positions requiring limited public interaction, police said.

She said seven other employees who had presumed positive tests last week but were negative in confirmatory lab testing also have returned to work. The seven were among employees tested based on contact with one of the three employees with confirmed COVID cases.

An additional 11 presumptive positive test results were returned Thursday for employees who were tested using rapid antigen testing because they may have had contact with the first three employees or the seven other employees, Sellers said.

Of the 11, eight tested negative in confirmatory lab testing, four of them twice, Sellers said. She said lab test results for the remaining three employees with presumptive positive tests were pending Tuesday afternoon.

Police have done four rounds of COVID-19 testing for employees at the Wailuku Police Station.

“We’re taking all the necessary precautions,” Sellers said. “We’re commercially sanitizing, social distancing. Everybody wears their mask.

“COVID is very real. We’re doing everything we can to minimize it. Police work doesn’t stop. We’re still out here. We’re going to work for the community and make sure we’re safe and they’re safe.”