Workers, residents at Allegheny County Treatment Alternative (ACTA) have tested positive for COVID-19

Nearly a dozen men and several workers at Allegheny County Treatment Alternative (ACTA) have tested positive for COVID-19.

One mother said her son has the virus and she’s worried about him and other workers at the facility.

Nadine Lowry's son Joshua, recently found out he contracted COVID-19.

She said, "My son is an asthmatic. He suffers from asthma."

He is at the facility that serves as a halfway house and drug rehab center on Fifth Avenue in Oakland.

"You don't know who is breathing on you, whoever breaths on you they might not show symptoms, but they could have it," said Lowry.

Lowry said, "I'm doing this for the other residents and for the employees there because they have families and they have to go home to their families everyday."

Criminal defense and civil rights attorney Paul Jubas has clients who live in the building who have tested positive for COVID-19.

He said some men at the facility are either getting released into the public, staying at ACTA, or being sent back to the Allegheny County Jail.

"I'm representing a number of the inmates at ACTA. One of them was recently released. Just today he was released and one of them is still in there. They both tested positive for COVID-19," said Jubas.

According to Allegheny County officials, 25 ACTA employees were tested for COVID-19.
Officials said three tests came back positive. As far as residents, 17 people were tested and 11 tests came back positive for COVID-19.

Lowry said after she told her son about the interview she did with Pittsburgh's Action News 4, she learned her son will be moved to a hotel to quarantine.

Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 has reached out to ACTA several times and no one has made a comment.