San Clemente Walmart Closes For Sanitization

San Clemente CA

29 December, 2020

11:01 AM

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SAN CLEMENTE, CA —San Clemente's Walmart Supercenter will be closed temporarily while the store undergoes a detailed cleaning, the megachain announced Monday. The store will be closed for "cleaning and building sanitization," according to the corporate affairs team, part of a "company-initiated program." It is not immediately clear if an employee of that store was found sickened due to coronavirus or if coronavirus infected shoppers were found to have visited that location. The Walmart Supercenter in San Clemente California will be temporarily closed at 2pm today for additional cleaning,...Posted by Walmart San Clemente on Monday, December 28, 2020 How do you know if you've been around someone infected by coronavirus? Contact tracing has continued to evolve since the beginning of the pandemic in March. Though the Orange County Health Care Agency is ultimately the first line of defense in contact tracing, with so many people exposed to the disease, more are turning toward online applications. The latest evolution of this is through the California Notify app. Downloaded and activated by over 4 million users in early December, this app serves as an exposure alert tool and works via Bluetooth, according to the app's information page. Purely voluntary in nature, the CA Notify app an "honor-based" notification system. Once you activate the app, if you test positive for coronavirus, the GPS proximity alert would then notify people around you with the app that they should be tested. Each Walmart store has provided clear-plastic sneeze guards at registers, social distancing signs, and directional traffic indicators within the stores. In advance of the holiday season, few shoppers adhered to those markers as they gathered their goods for at-home holiday celebrations. In a statement provided, the store's closure is for the "well-being of our associates and customers, and in consideration of guidance by the Centers for Disease Control and health experts." Though the company did not admit that an employee member or staff member tested positive for coronavirus, citing privacy protections when asked, they did say at the reopening the stores will "continue conducting associate health screens and temperature checks," the statement reads. "All associates will be provided with facemasks and gloves." The Anaheim Walmart Supercenter also closed for a detailed cleaning this week.