The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) announced Friday that nine additional fatalities related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and provided an update on the number of positive cases and recovered individuals.
In total, 61 Delawareans have passed away due to complications from COVID-19. Individuals who have died from COVID-19 ranged in age from 33 to 98 years old. Officials did not say how many of the “COVID-19 related deaths” are verified and how many are considered “probable” COVID-19 fatalities.
The most recent deaths all involve individuals with underlying health conditions, except for one individual:
- 73-year-old male from New Castle County, hospitalized
- 74-year-old male from New Castle County, long-term care facility
- 83-year-old male from New Castle County, long-term care facility
- 85-year-old male from New Castle County, hospitalized long-term care resident
- 90-year-old male from New Castle County, long-term care facility
- 46-year-old male from Sussex County, no known underlying health conditions
- 80-year-old male from Sussex County, long-term care facility
- 98-year-old female from Sussex County, long-term care facility
- 91-year-old female from Sussex County, long-term care facility
To protect personal health information, DPH will not confirm specific information about any individual case, even if other persons or entities disclose it independently.
The latest Delaware COVID-19 case statistics, cumulatively since March 11, include:
- 2,323 total laboratory-confirmed cases
- New Castle County cases: 1,100
- Kent County cases: 384
- Sussex County cases: 811
- Unknown County: 28
- Males: 1,053; Females: 1,267; Unknown: 3
- Age range: 0 to 98
- Currently hospitalized: 224; Critically ill: 64 (This data represents individuals currently hospitalized in a Delaware hospital regardless of residence, and is not cumulative.)
- Delawareans recovered: 423
- 11,694 negative cases*
* Data are provisional and subject to change. Data on negative cases are preliminary, based on negative results reported to DPH by state and commercial laboratories performing analysis.
As of today, there have been 114 positive COVID-19 cases involving long-term care facilities in Delaware. Thirty-four residents of Delaware long-term care facilities have died from complications related to COVID-19.
The locations and number of deaths related to long-term care facilities are:
- Little Sisters of the Poor, Newark (11)
- Milford Center, Genesis Healthcare (11)
- Brandywine Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (4)
- Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation and Health Center (2)
- Governor Bacon Health Center (1)
- Four New Castle County long-term care facilities (1 death each)
- A Sussex County long-term care facility (1 death)