Delaware announced 3 more deaths related to COVID-19 Tuesday, bringing the state's total fatality count to 10. To date there have been 319 confirmed cases of the virus in the First State, an increase of 55 cases since Monday.
The three individuals were all from New Castle County. The youngest was 87.
According to the state Division of Public Health, 57 people are hospitalized. The number of hospitalizations has increased since Monday, but the number of recoveries, 22, has remained the same.
The state Division of Public Health website listed the number of preliminary negative test results for the first time Tuesday— 3,696.
Last week, Division of Public Health Director Dr. Karyl Rattay said the state was unable to release the total number of tests conducted in Delaware due to a data-sharing issue between the state and commercial labs.
State officials have announced clusters of cases at the Little Sisters of the Poor nursing home and the Harborchase assisted living facility in New Castle County, and say they are investigating cases at two additional long-term care facilities.
The state announced Tuesday five of Delaware’s COVID-19 deaths are related to long-term care facilities, including three at Little Sisters of the Poor.
Brandywine Living at Seaside Pointe, an assisted living facility in Rehoboth Beach, announced to residents and families last week that a resident in their early 90s tested positive for the virus.
The State Department of Services for Children, Youth and their Families announced Tuesday another staff member tested positive for coronavirus. The person works at Stevenson House Detention Center, a Level V secure care facility in Milford. The Department says the individual is self-isolating at home and there have been no symptoms reported among students or other staff.
A staff member at Ferris School, a secure treatment school for court-committed boys in New Castle County, has also tested positive.
This story has been updated.
