A Memphis police department employee tested positive for COVID-19, according to Mayor Jim Strickland at a news conference Friday morning.

Just before going into a daily meeting at Memphis Emergency Management headquarters Friday morning, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said the new measures he announced Thursday afternoon closing sit-down business at restaurants and closing outright gyms and workout spaces are to limit the spread of COVID-19 in the city, and are necessary to keep the city’s health care structure, namely its hospitals, from being overwhelmed.