Morgantown Nursing Home Resident Dies From COVID-19

April 6, 2020 4:29 pm

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – A nursing home patient with underlying health conditions has become the third person to die from the new coronavirus in West Virginia. The Department of Health and Human Resources says the 76-year-old man was a resident of the Sundale nursing home in Morgantown, where 21 residents and eight staff members tested positive for the virus. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has tightened restrictions on people in Monongalia County and five other counties in the state to try to curb coronavirus hotspots. Three of those counties are in the eastern panhandle. The state’s two other deaths involved an 88-year-old woman from Marion County and a Jackson County resident with several underlying health issues.