Two more people in homeless shelters have died.
Two more men living in city homeless shelters have died of coronavirus, bringing the number of deaths to four, as city officials struggle to contain the spread.
The city Department of Homeless Services said that as of Monday, 107 people in 66 different shelters had tested positive. The men who died were all over 50, with at least one in his eighties, the city social services department said. The city did not release their names.
A New Jersey guardsman is the U.S. military’s first virus-related death.
A member of the New Jersey National Guard died on Saturday of complications related to the coronavirus, the first virus-related death of a U.S. service member, officials said on Monday.
The National Guard member, Capt. Douglas Linn Hickock, 57, a father of four, was a drilling guardsman and a physician’s assistant who lived in Pennsylvania but was originally from Jackson, N.J., Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey said.
“Today is a sad day for the Department of Defense, as we have lost our first American service member, active, reserve or Guard,” the defense secretary, Mark T. Esper said in a statement.
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