www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com One of Gwinnett County's newly elected incoming officials has contracted COVID-19.

Gwinnett Sheriff-elect Keybo Taylor announced Tuesday night that he and an unspecified staff member tested positive for the coronavirus disease on Monday. Taylor said he has contacted people he has been in contact with and that family members of himself and the staff member had been tested.

The family members have tested negative.

"Currently, I am in quarantine and have decided, in a preponderance of caution, to postpone my swearing-in ceremony and all subsequent engagements," Taylor said in a statement posted on his Facebook page. "In the words of Dr. (Anthony) Fauci, we must allow the virus to establish the timeline.

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