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Greensboro Rehab Center Temporarily Closes Due To Positive COVID-19 Tests

A health care worker prepares a specimen collection kit for testing. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)

A residential alcohol and drug treatment center in Greensboro is temporarily shutting down after three clients tested positive for COVID-19. 

A treatment manager at Malachi House II  says the three men were asymptomatic before they received positive findings. Willie Wooten tells the News & Record that the program's other participants have been moved off-campus, and all are being tested.

Wooten says the faith-based nonprofit has been hit hard by the coronavirus, with lost revenue and an unknown timetable for reopening.

Malachi House II has been added to the state's list of congregate living facilities experiencing coronavirus outbreaks. That list also includes two Guilford County nursing homes and a strawberry farm that hosts on-site housing.

An “ongoing outbreak” at a group-living facility is defined as two or more confirmed positive test results for COVID-19.

For the most up-to-date information on coronavirus in North Carolina, visit our Live Updates blog here. WFDD wants to hear your stories — connect with us and let us know what you're experiencing.

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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