SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. – There is a sense of relief among the residents and staff at Sumter Senior Living facilities in The Villages after the results of last week’s voluntary tests are in and out of the more than 300 tests not one came back positive for COVID-19. “It was a busy couple of days doing testing, but definitely worth the wait to get the results that we got - zero COVID-19 cases in our community,” said Jamie Lillard, sirector of sales at Sumter Senior Living. “We have taken a lot of precautions.
We’ve been really practicing the social distancing, cut back on dining, delivering the meals, we made a lot of changes to protect our residents.” Jeanne Jones lives, 74, at Sumter Grande, the independent living side of the facility, and says