The latest fatalities were all Cherry Hill residents ranging in age from their 60s to their 90s.
By Matt Skoufalos | April 14, 2020
NJ COVID-19 Dashboard – 4-14-20. Credit: NJ DOH.
Six more Camden County residents have lost their lives to complications related to novel coronavirus (COVID-19), and another 95 were confirmed to have contracted the virus, the county government reported Monday.
Locally, 1,478 Camden County residents have tested positive for COVID-19, and 45 have perished from related complications.
The most recent deaths were all Cherry Hill residents: two men and one woman in their 70s, a man and a woman in their 90s, and another man in his 60s.
Throughout the state, 68,824 COVID-19 cases have been reported, and 2,805 related deaths, Governor Phil Murphy said Tuesday.
Camden County Freeholder-Director Lou Cappelli expressed his condolences to those who’ve lost loved ones to the virus, and stressed tomorrow’s opening of the second mass testing site in the county as an opportunity to gather information that “will play a pivotal role in this fight.
“If we combine our collective action with the information gained at this site and elsewhere, we can break the back of this disease and win the war against coronavirus,” Cappelli said in a statement.
The new cases are:
- an Audubon man in his 40s
- a Bellmawr man in his 60s
- three Berlin Borough women in their 40s, 60s, and 70s
- 16 Camden City men, five in their 60s, four in their 50s, three in their 40s, and two each in their 30s and 70s; and 10 women, two each in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s
- six Cherry Hill women, two each in their 20s and 60s, and one each in her 40s and 50s; and two men in their 80s
- two Clementon women in their 30s and 40s and two men in their 30s and 60s
- a Gibbsboro woman in her 80s
- a Gloucester City woman in her 40s
- seven Gloucester Township women, two each in their 40s and 70s and one each in her 20s, 30s, and 80s; and two men in their 60s
- a Haddon Heights man in his 80s
- a Haddon Township man in his 70s
- a Laurel Springs man in his 50s
- five Lindenwold women, two in their 40s and one each in her 20s, 50s, and 60s
- a Magnolia man in his 60s
- seven Pennsauken women, two each in their 50s and 80s, and one each in her 20s, 30s, and 40s; and two men, one each in his 20s and 60s
- a Pine Hill woman in her 50s
- a Runnemede man in his 20s
- two Somerdale women, one each in her 20s and 50s
- a Stratford man in his 30s
- four Voorhees women, two in their 80s and one each in her 20s and 30s; and two men, one each in his 30s and 60s
- four Winslow Township men, one each in his 20s, 40s, 50s, and 70s; and two women, one each in her 30s and 50s
- two Woodlynne women, one in her teens and one in her 30s, and a man in his 30s
- two people of indeterminate residence; a man in his 80s and woman in her 40s
The Camden County and New Jersey Health Departments are tracing the closest contacts of these newest cases, and investigations remain ongoing.
Read our ongoing round-up of COVID-19 coverage here.
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