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Georgia State University employee tests positive for COVID-19

03/10/2020 -- Atlanta, Georgia -- Students navigate Georgia State University's main campus in Atlanta, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. Georgia State University students are urging the campus to follow the example of dozens of colleges around the country and move to online classes in the face of the mounting coronavirus threat. A petition for online classes collected more than 11,000 signatures overnight, helped along by a news story about the effort in the Signal, the GSU student newspaper. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)

Credit: Alyssa Pointer

Credit: Alyssa Pointer

03/10/2020 -- Atlanta, Georgia -- Students navigate Georgia State University's main campus in Atlanta, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. Georgia State University students are urging the campus to follow the example of dozens of colleges around the country and move to online classes in the face of the mounting coronavirus threat. A petition for online classes collected more than 11,000 signatures overnight, helped along by a news story about the effort in the Signal, the GSU student newspaper. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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March 20, 2020

A Georgia State University employee who works in the Robinson College of Business has tested positive for COVID-19, the school announced Friday.

The unidentified worker is the first employee or student at Georgia’s largest university to be diagnosed with the disease. The employee was diagnosed Thursday, Georgia State said in a message posted on its website.

The condition of the employee, who is being treated at a local hospital, was not immediately known.

Georgia has had 420 confirmed cases of the virus and 13 deaths, state officials said Friday.

The employee was last on the Atlanta campus on March 12. The Robinson College administration has contacted individuals who may have been in proximity to the staff member.

Georgia State has ended in-person classes for the rest of the spring semester and moving to online instruction.

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