The St. Joseph County, Indiana Health Department confirmed the 4th COVID-19 related death in a county resident. The patient was staying at a long-term care facility where there’s a COVID-19 outbreak.
Twenty-nine people at a long-term care facility in St. Joseph County have tested positive for COVID-19. Three people from the facility have required hospitalization.
Deputy Health Officer Mark Fox says since the cluster has been discovered, the facility has received about 160 test kits to help.
“One of our concerns has been the introduction of this virus in any congregate living setting, whether that’s a nursing home, or a homeless shelter, or the jail, any place where groups of people are living under the same roof," he says.
Fox says people at the facility experiencing symptoms have already been tested. Now they are working on testing everyone else, including staff members. There are roughly 100 residents at the facility.
He says the health department is investigating if any employees who work at multiple long-term care facilities could possibly be spreading the virus.
The Health Department has not released the name of the long-term care facility experiencing the outbreak