Third person in the Florida Keys dies from novel coronavirus
A third person in the Florida Keys has died from complications linked to the novel coronavirus, according to the Florida Department of Health.
Bob Eadie, administrator of the Health Department in the Keys, said the the person died in a Miami-Dade hospital. It’s not immediately clear if the case was travel-related or spread in the community.
“A person in the hospital here was transferred to Dade. He passed away yesterday,” Eadie told government colleagues and Keys business leaders on a conference call Wednesday morning.
It’s also not immediately clear where in the island chain the patient lived. The two other people who have died in Monroe County lived in Key West.
As of Wednesday, the Department of Health reports 51 people in the Keys have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Of those cases, 45 of the infected are residents and six are from out of the county, the Health Department said.
According to the latest Health Department information, a total of 15,456 people have tested positive for the virus, and 309 people have died.
This story was originally published April 8, 2020 at 11:32 AM with the headline "Third person in the Florida Keys dies from novel coronavirus."
