Second US Coronavirus Death Confirmed in Washington State

More cases emerge across the country as the global death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 3,000.

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Washington State health officials confirmed that six people have died from the coronavirus, following a March 1 announcement that a man in his 70s was the second person to have died from COVID-19 in the US, according to the Associated Press. The first was a man in his 50s who also lived in Washington, which now has 12 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Dozens of residents and staff members of the LifeCare nursing facility in Kirkland, Washington, are sick and being tested for the virus after three elderly people there were diagnosed, reports The Washington Post. KOMO News reports that two of the LifeCare residents have died of coronavirus. According to the AP, more than two dozen members of the International Association of Firefighters who responded to calls from the LifeCare facility are now being quarantined.

In California, two health care workers in San Francisco’s North Bay ...

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