Construction, businesses face twin threats of COVID-19 and bad economy

The Maine CDC is still investigating an outbreak of COVID-19 at a construction site in Augusta, where Cianbro is partnering with another company to build a new Maine Veterans Home. There have now been 26 workers at that site tested positive for the virus. The Augusta construction site has been temporarily shut down because of the COVID-19 outbreak –the first at a construction site in Maine since the pandemic began. Unlike some other states,…