SHIPYARD bosses have revealed staff who worked in close proximity to a Covid-19 positive worker have tested negative for the virus.
A small group of staff who worked in the same workshop as a someone found to have contracted the virus were re-tested as a precaution.
Their tests have since come back as negative.
BAE has introduced a regular programme of testing as it attempts to bring back thousands of workers to the site.
The manual worker was said to have been the first of nearly 6,000 staff tested in the last five weeks to produce positive test.
According to BAE bosses, the contractor, one of 2,500 working at the site, was asymptomatic for the virus and not from Cumbria.
He was also said to have been working in full protective equipment and not in close proximity to any staff.
Nevertheless, a small group of workers were offered new tests for the virus as a precaution following the positive test from their colleague.
Bosses carried out contact tracing for the contractor confirmed to have caught the virus last Wednesday.
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